Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Augustine Birrell

Stichwörter: book-collecting

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How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Walter Benjamin

Stichwörter: books travel book-collecting

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To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Carlos María Domínguez

Stichwörter: life libraries books book-collecting bibliomania bibliophiila collection

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Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

Jorge Luis Borges

Stichwörter: poetry book-collecting book-buying

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To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

Leona Rostenberg

Stichwörter: books book-collecting librarianship

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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

Edward Gibbon

Stichwörter: reading books london book-collecting book-stores

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