Famous quotes containing the words library and/or cave:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)