Books do furnish a room. Autore: Anthony Powell Copy Quote More from Anthony Powell “Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.” “Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the suns…” “He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy:…” “I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for exam…”