825 Quotes About Library




  • Author maya angelou
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    Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

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  • Author Paul Auster
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    Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

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  • Author Peter Lewis Allen
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    Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

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  • Author Alan Bennett
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    Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

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  • Author Anita Brookner
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    Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

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