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«The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.»
«Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.»
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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«A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.»
Author: Thomas Kempis
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Books
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«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
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Belief
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«A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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Books not, clumsy, devotes, elements, fragile, librarian, librarians, oblivion, protects, the books, The Elements, The Librarian
«Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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acquiring, Books not, dissatisfied, dissatisfying, praiseworthy, the books
«Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.»
«Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution /such call I good books.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Books not, cower, cowering, entertained, timid, unusual
«I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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