"Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he w..." — Umberto Eco

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.