A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
Samuel NigerOverall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
Diana GabaldonLord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were lined with rare editions, and its chairs and Chesterfield sofa suggested the embraces of the houris. In one corner stood a black baby grand, a wood fire leaped on a wide old-fashioned hearth, and the Sèvres vases on the chimneypiece were filled with ruddy and gold chrysanthemums. To the eyes of the young man who was ushered in from the raw November fog it seemed not only rare and unattainable, but friendly and familiar, like a colourful and gilded paradise in a mediæval painting
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: library lord-peter-wimsey
But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"
"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.
Stichwörter: school library amusing university students
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
Winston S. ChurchillStichwörter: life friend books read library relationship churchill
The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-AttasI put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.
Charlaine HarrisStichwörter: humor books library
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.
Heather BrewerStichwörter: library
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart LovelaceStichwörter: imagination libraries reading books library escape
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
Jean-Paul SartreStichwörter: words reading books literature library
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