Jacob Dvorak

“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities