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"530 Books Quotes

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Power Text Words Work
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Bookstore Evidence People Thinking
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If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Book Failures Sell Success
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That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Thing Books Travel Moving
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Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.

Books Private Reliable Reality
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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

Desires Book
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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

Book Thought MusicHearts
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Read Feel Steps Author
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books

Bad book Repent Ignorance Power
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Books Writer Reader Shadow
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

Reader Author's Intent Reality
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But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself
Destroy Good book Kills Reason
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Good book Treasured Purpose Life
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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Books Change People Sentences
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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Books Classes Hours Time
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A book worth reading is worth owning.
Book Worth Reading Owning
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A man of one book, a student of many.

Man Book Student
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Books, the children of the brain.

Books Children Brain
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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

Books Authors World Return
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When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Writer Dies Books
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Sleep Sorrounded Books
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality Probable Likely
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Book Isolated Relationship
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Books Legacies Mankind Generation
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Book Best Friends Today
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No company like good books, especially the book of God.

Company Books God
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Novel Mirror Road
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Sentence Novel Trust Human
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Thoughts Books Mind
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