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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
— Louis Agassiz
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is…
— Carl Jung
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to…
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— Norman Lamm
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
— Oscar Wilde
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Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes…
— George Washington
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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
— Paul J. Zak
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All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing.…
— Radhanath Swami
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The more that we gather at the seasonal tides of Nature, the more we become like Nature. When we become like Her…
— Raven Grimassi
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters
— Oscar Wilde
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