"One of the misunderstandings that dominate the concept of libraries is that you go into one to look for a book whose title you already know. In reality, it often happens that you go to a library because you want a book whose title you do know." Umberto Eco Photo: Henri Bresson

"I wonder if you talked about me, as you went home, or thought of me when the moon rose." Virginia Woolf Letter to Vanessa Bell 7th August 1908 Painting by Casper David Friedrich

"How do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt." Toni Morrison Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” Gertrude Stein "Taj Mahal" by Sanjeev Kumar

"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. Books are good company in sad times and happy times for books are people- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." E B White

"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics." Yevgeny Zamyatin Photo by Willy Ronis

"Somewhere in a book there is a sentence waiting for us to give meaning to existence" Miguel de Cervantes b. 29 September 1547 Photo by Francesc Català-Roca

"Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself." Rumi b. 30 September 1207 Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, paying homage to King George V and Queen Mary during the 1911 Delhi Durbar

"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live." Francoise Sagan

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." Alan Wilson Watt

“Who has known the ocean? Neither you nor I, with our earth-bound senses,” Rachel Carson Art by Manuel Vargas

"The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions " Willy Ronis Vincent 🎨Morning Glories, 1873 by Winslow Homer.

"...once again in dead earnest offer to the betrayed world a rose." Five Men by Zbigniew Herbert Translated from the Polish by Czesław Miłoz & Peter Dale Scott

"Aging is life, it is not decay. It is a continuation of life. Instead of asking how old you are, ask, How long have you lived? It changes everything." Diane von Fürstenberg Photo by Henri Cartier Bresson

"Old books, honest friends, a mediocre, but our own, poem, and the strange habit of finally being happy in the shadows". Vicente Gallego Photo by Ernst Baumann, 1938, Austrian Alps

“Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other” Virginia Woolf Image Credit Unknown

"You and I are more than you and I because it's we." e. e. cummings Small Boys Flying Kite by George Marks

"Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in the world that can be said against them." Mary Oliver

“Let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me.” Rumi

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square by Burt Glinn