I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.

Anonymous
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The most beautiful thing about books is that they can be opened and closed again and again. But the most beautiful thing about our lives, the only real beauty, is that we can’t close them, and we can’t reopen them. It’s like opening a book and finding another one inside – not a new one but the same one – with a different cover. I was reminded of this by the poem “The Book of Life” by Luis de Góngora (which I hope you will forgive me for quoting in English), which begins: “This book must be read/To open many windows on the soul/And to discover many secrets of the world.”

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

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