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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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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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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."
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"Life and death have been lacking in my life."
Death
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
Love
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
Dream
"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
Corruption
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
Reading
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
Existence
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
Art
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Paradise
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
Nothing
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