The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
Books Quotes
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men.
They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Santiago swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands… So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
