“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
“Books keep stupidity at bay. And vain hopes. And vain men. They undress you with love, strength and knowledge. It’s love from within. Make your choice: book or…”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
― The Twits
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.”
― Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
― Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
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