The hard and constant lesson is that we are only observers here. We do not move the pieces. We do not chart the course. We have our little parameters, like an insect captured in a shoebox. We strut back and forth, arranging and rearranging
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“Perdu reflected that is was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry, ma chère Madame.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
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