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“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Mens telefonen ringer op, tænker jeg over, at visse mennesker, mennesker der ikke kommer så meget ud, mennesker uden så mange tætte relationer, har en tendens til at tale for meget, når de endelig får muligheden. Sådan er jeg nogen gange.”
― The New Me
― The New Me
“Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Jeg lytter til noget trist i mine høretelefoner. En eller anden kærlighedssang. Jeg har altid følt mig forbundet til teksterne i kærlighedssange på en utraditionel måde, som regel en eller anden sorg over mit forhold til mig selv, jeg ved det ikke.”
― The New Me
― The New Me
“Repository,” he finally says, “you know this word? A resting place. A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.” His eyes open very widely then, as though he peers into a great darkness. “But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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