Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.
Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes in my library, my words and my world - except f...
Lesen ist eine Erinnerungsarbeit, bei der wir durch Geschichten in den Genuss der vergangenen Erfahrungen anderer kommen, als wären es unsere eigenen.
Je me rendis compte que personne - pas même mon père, assis à quelques pas de moi - ne pouvait pénétrer mon espace de lecture, distinguer ce que le livre m'expliquait avec impudeur, et que rien, sinon...
But there is something other than entertainment which one derives from reading in bed: a particular quality of privacy. Reading in bed is a self-centred act, immobile, free from ordinary social conven...
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A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have been given a shelf and a number, retain a mobility of their own.
كسلان ،واهن القوى ،متبجح ،متحذلق ،مدعي الانتماء إلى النخبةهذه الصفات وغيرها ألصقت على مر الأيام بالأستاذ الشارد الذهن ،بالقاريء القصير النظر ،وبالمولعين بالكتبمدفون في الكتب ،معزول عن عالم الحقائق وال...
كتَبَ سينيكا (Seneca) مادِحاً الفضول بقوله: لقد حَبَتنا الطبيعة فضولاً فطريّاً، وانطلاقاً من إدراكها فنّها وجمالها، سوّتنا لنكون جمهور هذا العرض المدهش للعالم، ذلك أنّ هذا الجمال كان سيذهب سدى لو أنّ...
شيئا ما يموت في داخلي عندما أستغني عن كتبي.
بوكاتشيو، إنّ دانتي، مع مُضيّه قُدُماً في كتابة الكوميديا، راح يرسل المقاطع المكتملة لأحد حُماتِه وهو كانغراندي دِلّا سكالا (Cangrande della Scala) وذلك في مجموعات تضمّ ستّة أناشيد أو ثمانية في بعض ال...
إننا نجد في كل صفحة من صفحات كتاب نطالعه آثار حياتنا الذاتية
أما الغريب في الأمر فهو أننا لا ننقطع أبدًا عن ممارسة فعل القراءة على الرغم من أننا لا نملك تفسيرًا مرضيًا لما نفعله
You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind th...
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we wi...
Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the defini...
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, whic...
Kitaplarla şaşkına dönmüş Don Quijote ve hac yolcusu Dante, öğrendikleriyle felce uğrayan Prens Hamlet, okuduklarıyla yaşamak istediği hayatı birbirine karıştıran Emma Bovary..
I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice the details, the quickening pace of reading sometimes hurtling the stor...
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.