But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Darkness promotes speech.
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.