"My books are not dead weight, they are live weight—matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows"
Leon Wieseltier in defense of the personal library, for The New Republic (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)