Logo
Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area

Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Books
category

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Author unknown

Category:
Books

A blessed companion is a book, — a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. – Douglas Jerrold

Category:
Books

He fed his spirit with the bread of books. – Edwin Markham

Category:
Books

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

Category:
Excess

I think Im fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, its impossible to ignore. – Tom Perrotta

Category:
Religion

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as better. – Neale Donald Walsch

Category:
sad

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
Imagination