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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it read more
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in read more
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands read more
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
