Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.