Quotes and sayings about tag  books

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

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• Love

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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• Writing

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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• Life

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

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I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

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They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

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• Motivational

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

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There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

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