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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.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine read more
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
