Nietzschean2008

“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith