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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
“I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another.”
― Selected Letters, Volume 1
― Selected Letters, Volume 1
“Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.”
― Rime Di Petrarca: Verses by Petrarca
― Rime Di Petrarca: Verses by Petrarca
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
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“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.”
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“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
― Canzoniere: Selected Poems
― Canzoniere: Selected Poems
Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
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