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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Iedereen die voor abnormaal wil doorgaan en er hard aan werkt om excentriek en uitzonderlijk te zijn, heeft een grotere voorspelbaarheid dan wie normaal, gewoon, alledaags en onopvallend heet te zijn. Zodra bijzonderheid gewild is, is het meest bijzondere er vanaf. Echt uitzonderlijke mensen weten zelden van zichzelf dat ze uitzonderlijk zijn en als ze er door de jaren heen achter beginnen te komen dat iets hen van anderen onderscheidt, kost het ze meestal hun verdere leven om zich er bij neer te leggen.”
― Connie Palmen, De vriendschap

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Er zit een geheim in alles wat je ziet en zelfs als je dat geheim oplost blijft er het geheim van je vermogen om het te zien en op te lossen. Denk ook vooral niet dat ik met open mond van verbazing door de wetenschap gezworven heb, slechts gedreven door nieuwsgierigheid. Noodzaak, mislukking, geld of gemakzucht hebben me vaak een andere kant op geleid maar altijd weer naar de ontdekking van de natuurlijke schoonheid in elk mens en elk levend wezen. Je kunt zowel schoonheid horen in het gepiep van ratten als in het gepiep van autobanden, net zo goed als je schoonheid kunt zien in de vorm van onbegrijpelijke wolken en bergen en meren en in de geest van kinderen.”
― Leo Vroman, Warm, rood, nat en lief

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life’s painful commotion.”
― Édouard Levé, Suicide

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone for years. He had been alone since that moment when desire had ceased between his woman and himself. He was alone -alone. Wife and children had surrounded him and had hindered him from bearing his pain. Like useless poultices that do not aid healing, they had lain upon his wounds and had merely covered them.”
― Joseph Roth

“Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,”
― Chaim Potok, Old Men at Midnight: Stories

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the exception rather than the rule.”
― Hendrik Groen, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I am true only as I see and understand myself deep within; I am what I am for myself and in myself, and nothing else.”
― Jean Améry, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities

“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“Het gedicht, die bescheiden poging van de dichter
om niet nu maar pas later uiteen te vallen.”
― Miroslav Holub

“One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.”
― Agatha Christie, The Clocks