Paradise will be a kind of library

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.