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Books Quotes

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."

"What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books"

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands"

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose"

"If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books."

"We read to know we are not alone."

"I've always been a reader of science fiction, and fantasy."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die"

"Travel? Absurdly easy: with one book out of Toulouse I'm in Florence before five o' the clock."

"It isn’t what the book costs; it’s what it will cost if you don’t read it"

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity"

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