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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

 

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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

 

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without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers

 

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth
But being mounted bareback on the earth?

 

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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.



Albert Camus:

 

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

 

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bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.



Amy Lowell:

 

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For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives

 

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All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.


Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

 

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I have a real soft spot in my heart

 

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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

 

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

 

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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

 

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

 

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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.



Denise Levertov:

 

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

 

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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

 

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

 

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There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.

 

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.