“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“We read to know we’re not alone.”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“So many books, so little time.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
You may probably have heard the phrase “Oh, he is an old soul” when referring to a person. Sometimes people say for a young child that he or she is an old soul. But, what does this mean? Do souls really have an age? If yes, then how can you