Huzur

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain