There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.


The Journal of My Other Self (ed. 1930)

Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the...

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the...

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the...

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the...