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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
Explore more quotes by Nicolas de Chamfort
"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity."
"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."
"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
"Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us."
"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
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