Quotes on literature

course anyone truly loves books buys hope read one fleeting lifetime. — David Quammen, Boilerplate Rhino: Nature Eye Beholder

David Quammen The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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Books like imprisoned souls till someone takes a shelf frees them. — Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler
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read, don’t really read; pop a beautiful sentence mouth suck like a fr — Bohumil Hrabal, Loud a Solitude

Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude
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need books affect us like a disaster, grieve us deeply, like death som — Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka
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one way tolerating existence lose oneself literature a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert
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believe today ever a book sought even one great page it. search fragme — Henry Miller, Tropic Cancer

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
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Insensibly formed delightful habit world, habit reading: know thus pro — W. Somerset Maugham, Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
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forget everything. hours slip by. travel chair centuries seem seem see — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
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Books change suffering, books protect us evil, books tell us good beau — Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel
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thought: pity poor spirit know enchantment beauty language. — Muriel Barbery, Elegance Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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