“Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“shruti texts do not have a human agent as a composer. Examples of shruti texts are Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads.”
― The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials
― The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials
“Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural. —Alexander Smith”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other. —Ashlyn Greer, The Care & Feeding of Old Books”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“There’s nothing more personal than a book, especially one that’s become an important part of someone’s life.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
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