#buying-books

"Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?"Whoever it was, I agree with him."

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted."