Book Quote by Mervyn Peake

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

— Susan Sontag

“If a PEAK EXPERIENCE is what happens when you actively unplug yourself from the Void – even if just for a second – then…

— Oli Anderson

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we…

— Sam Harris

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think…

— Susan Sontag

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems…

— Virginia Woolf

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then…

— Anais Nin

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“In life, every experience of a peak always follows the experience of a valley and we go back and forth between them. […] Until…

— Eliza Mada Dalian

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”

— Adelise M. Cullens

“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most curiosity-driven desire.”

— Anonymous

“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah