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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
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
A Room of One's Own
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
The Hour of the Star
All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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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