A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
A good bookstore is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
A good book does not necessarily make a good film.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.[Un libro, un libro lleno de contactos humanos de camisas, un libro sin soledad, con hombres y herramientas, un libro es la victoria.]
A book is like a man – clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.
