Daniel

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“Du bist kein Hauptgewinn. Du bist ein Mängelexemplar. Ein zauberhaftes und liebenswertes Mängelexemplar, und wenn da draußen jemand ist, der das sehen kann, dann ist er ein Hauptgewinn, also was stiehlst du meine Zeit mit doofer Selbstgeißelung? Schnapp dir den Typen und hör auf zu jammern!


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― Sarah Kuttner

“A woman spent about ten minutes looking around the shop, then told me that she was a retired librarian. I suspect she thought that this was some sort of a bond between us. Not so. On the whole, booksellers dislike librarians. To realise a good price for a book, it has to be in decent condition, and there is nothing librarians like more than taking a perfectly good book and covering it with stamps and stickers before – and with no sense of irony – putting a plastic sleeve over the dust jacket to protect it from the public. The final ignominy for a book that has been in the dubious care of a public library is for the front free endpaper to be ripped out and a ‘DISCARD’ stamp whacked firmly onto the title page, before it is finally made available for members of the public to buy in a sale. The value of a book that has been through the library system is usually less than a quarter of one that has not.”
― Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller