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“I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.”

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“It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.”

Truth Literature Books

Author:Julian Barnes

“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.”

Books

Book:Dangerous Laughter

Source: Dangerous Laughter

“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and pass with time... all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.”

Books Love Of Books The Philobiblon

Author:Richard De Bury Translated by E.C.Thomas

“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing.”

Reading Knowledge Books Reading Books

Book:The Character

Source: The Character

“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphere established in the written or spoken exhange, among many other instances, offer alternatives to the book itself that allow us to talk about ourselves without dwelling upon the work too closely.”

Books

Book:How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Source: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

“Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den einen oder anderen nützlichen Hinweis geben. Die beste Anleitung bieten persönliche Launen – das Vertrauen auf das Lustprinzip und der Glaube an den Zufall -, die uns manchmal in einen provisorischen Zustand der Gnade versetzen, uns ermöglichen, Gold aus Flachs zu spinnen.”

Reading Books Bibliophily

Book:Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World

Source: Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World

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