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“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”
― Novalis

“Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You’re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You’re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you’d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth”
― Isaac Babel