Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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The Theologians, translated by James E. Irby (1964)Jorge Luis Borges
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Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Desiderius Erasmus
A people becomes aware of its existence when it becomes aware of its entirety, not only of its component parts and their individual interests.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
In very other period of art history, the idea itself –the what – had been primary. Today (1961) the idea matters less than the way it is arrived at; it is the how that makes the work. This word brings us again face to face with the theme and its infinite variations. It is no longer a matter of knowing, of possessing the truth, but of approaching it.. ..knowing that the road is long, knowing that the road does not end, knowing that the road is the end in itself.
Michel Seuphor
I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff... Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].
Katie Melua
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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