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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Our Mutual Friend
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! - When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Pride and Prejudice
When a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
A Room of One's Own
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
Jacob's Room
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned - in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
Jacob's Room
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays