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"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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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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"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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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Explore more quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
Literature
"Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man...."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared."
Philosophy
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
Man
"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
People
"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
Age
"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."
Aging
"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."
Thought
"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."
Existence
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