“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.”
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
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.”
Stewart Brand (1938) American writer
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.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician
Variant: Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Shelby Foote (1916–2005) Novelist, historian
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.”
Alberto Manguel (1948) writer
Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
