#literature

"It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin."

"I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets."

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."

"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.)"

"That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!"

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"

"There can be no forced inspiration."

"Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory."

"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides."

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."