{"quotes":[{"text":"I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.","author":"Hark Herald Sarmiento","tags":["capture","confinement","explorer","immensity","limited-atonement","parchment","photographs","vastness","world","writing"],"id":135811,"author_id":"Hark+Herald+Sarmiento"},{"text":"Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["book","books","dialogue","libraries","library","parchment","speaking"],"id":411603,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}