Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Why Lost Books Loom Large In The Imaginations Of Bibliophiles

“There is a quotation from Proust: ‘To release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those agonies which prepare the way of love there must be … the risk of an impossibility’. I think that passion for a lost book, often like love for a person, arises from the impossibility of reading it.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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