Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane AustenMots clés literature
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane AustenMots clés love literature jane-austen northanger-abbey
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Virginia WoolfMots clés words reading books literature
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Jasper FfordeMots clés humor books literature guns
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
René DescartesMots clés words reading books literature
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
Walt WhitmanMots clés science poetry democracy literature schools theology conflict prose science-vs-religion curious churches instructive superstitious fable primitive credulous fossil glorious mythic spectacle testing untaught
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H.P. LovecraftMots clés words reading books literature library
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando PessoaMots clés reading solitude literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
Jane YolenMots clés literature childhood disease
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward GibbonMots clés literature
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