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“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...”
― Camilo José Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
― Stendhal

“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
― Vladimir Nabokov