The library belonging to the abbey St Peter in the Black Forest.
(yes, it’s actually called that and yes, it actually exists, it’s not a stage prop for some Disney film)
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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief."
— Franz Kafka (via quote-book)
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Spanish artists Luzinterruptus seized the Square with their illuminated book installation for The Light in Winter 2012. Read about their time in Melbourne at luzinterruptus.com
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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“Books Napoli was taken in an abandoned Palazza in Italy… every room was beautiful but this forgotten ‘library’ added an extra surreal quality. The fact that the books had blocked off a doorway but that this was counter-balanced by the light through the other door also added a wonderful balance.” - Barry Cawston. Learn more about the artist HERE.
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Chris Cobb - There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole World (2004), an installation of 20,000 books arranged to create a continuous spectrum
OH MY GOD YES PLEASE
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via shineedore)
