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Seneca

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."

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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."

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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."

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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."

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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."

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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."

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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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"How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm."

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"Whom they have injured they also hate."

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"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks."

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"Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us."

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"Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell."

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