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“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“- Знаешь, Цири, что даёт человеку университетское образование?
- Нет. Что?
- Умение пользоваться источниками.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“История — не пропахший табаком да лавандой бабушкин сундук, а деловой портфель с документами, которые всегда следует держать под рукой, потому что они могут вдруг оказаться востребованными.”
― Boris Vasiliev, Картежник и бретёр, игрок и дуэлянт: записки прапрадеда

“There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The House of Doctor Dee

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales