books Quotes

“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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“books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“books are dead men talking. ”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one...”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

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“books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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