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““(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.””

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“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility”

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“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the…

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“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if…

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“What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.”

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“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with…

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“Don't follow you,' said Filby.”

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“We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo,…

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“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards…

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“Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

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“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind -…

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“So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from…

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“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.”

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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