“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
“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.”
“I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.”