Paulo Coelho Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Spring Quotes , Book Quotes

First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Running Quotes , Book Quotes

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

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In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Book Quotes

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Book Quotes

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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