Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

What has been forgotten is never something purely individual. Everything forgotten mingles with what has been forgotten of the prehistoric world, forms countless, uncertain, changing compounds, yielding a constant flow of new, strange products.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.