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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
The book you don't read can't help
The book you don't read can't help
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be read more
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored read more
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.