“What better place to kill time than a library?”

“What better place than this? What better choice than us?”

“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”

“Vengeance must end somewhere, and what better place to stop than at the prince?”

“Better be killed than frightened to death.”

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”

“Death is an ascension to a better library.”

“fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while”

“What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.”