The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of mysel...

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.

Marguerite Yourcenar in Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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