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  • What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Book Quotes , Dark Quotes
  • A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Lying Quotes , Book Quotes
  • The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Voice Quotes