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“Language shapes consciousness,
And the use of language to shape consciousness
Is an important branch of magic.”
― Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
And the use of language to shape consciousness
Is an important branch of magic.”
― Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
― The Neverending Story
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
― The Neverending Story
“The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized. For the former, the bookshelf is a kind of memoir; there are my childhood books, my college books, my favorite novels, my inexplicable choices. Many matchmaking and social networking websites offer a place for members to list what they're reading for just this reason: books can reveal a lot about a person. This is particularly true of the collector, for whom the bookshelf is a reflection not just of what he has read but profoundly of who he is: 'Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they can come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them,' wrote cultural critic Walter Benjamin.”
― The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
― The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
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