Buchmendel Quotes

“One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.”
― Stefan Zweig

“...διάβαζε με τον τρόπο που άλλοι προσεύχονται, που οι παίκτες παίζουν κι οι μεθυσμένοι στυλώνουν ναρκωμένοι τα μάτια στο κενό. Διάβαζε με μια τόσο συγκινητική κατάνυξη, που έκτοτε κάθε άλλος άνθρωπος που διαβάζει πάντα μου μοιάζει βέβηλος...

Ο Παλαιοβιβλιοπώλης Μέντελ”
― Stefan Zweig

“Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful medley, their extinction and their flaming-up anew, so did Jacob Mendel, seated at his table in the Cafe Gluck, look through his spectacles into the universe of books, a universe that lies above the world of our everyday life, and, like the stellar universe, is full of changing cycles.”
― Stefan Zweig, Selected Stories