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  • #1
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #13
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #16
    Franz Kafka
    “In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #17
    Michel Foucault
    “Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”
    Michel Foucault

  • #18
    Umberto Eco
    “When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
    Virginia Woolf
    tags: age

  • #21
    Lilian Jackson Braun
    “Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?”
    Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
    Stephen King

  • #25
    Stephen  King
    “If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”
    Stephen King

  • #26
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #27
    Rex Stout
    “[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
    Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance

  • #28
    Lilian Jackson Braun
    “Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”
    Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office

  • #29
    Lilian Jackson Braun
    “People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”
    Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

  • #30
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz



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