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  • . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Book Quotes
  • Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Book Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Book Quotes
  • Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Believe Quotes , Book Quotes
  • A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Taken Quotes