Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine BirrellTags: book-collecting
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Walter BenjaminTags: books travel book-collecting
To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
Carlos María DomínguezTags: life libraries books book-collecting bibliomania bibliophiila collection
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 BorgesTags: poetry book-collecting book-buying
To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.
Leona RostenbergTags: books book-collecting librarianship
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
Edward GibbonTags: reading books london book-collecting book-stores
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