“An exile is a refugee with a library!”
In The Light of what We Know (2014)
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“In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile.”
Source: From Arenas’ work Before Night Falls (as quoted in “On Exile and the Longing for Home: Cuban Writer Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/on-exile-and-the-longing-_b_4451017; 2014 Feb 18)
“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”
Source: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
Variant: Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Shelby Foote quoted in: North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54 (1993), p. 162
“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
