“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
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(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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