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“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”
― Book of Tea
― Book of Tea
“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
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