Alex Miller

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

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