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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #2
    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #3
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    Mortimer J. Adler

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #5
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  • #6
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #7
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #9
    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #10
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • #11
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #12
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

  • #13
    Anthony Trollope
    “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
    Anthony Trollope

  • #14
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #15
    Pearl S. Buck
    “To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
    Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, With Love

  • #16
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #18
    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #19
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #20
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #21
    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

  • #22
    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #23
    O. Henry
    “Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
    O. Henry

  • #24
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #25
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #26
    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    Geraldine Brooks, March

  • #27
    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #28
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #30
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow



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