Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
VoltaireA soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTags: books
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
Joan BauerI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis BorgesTo acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: life reading books refuge pleasure bibliotherapy escape good-habits
The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
Stéphane MallarméTags: books flesh wit sensuality
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Ezra Pound[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Judy BlumeTags: books censorship
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
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