《A passion for books》摘录

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.-- Thomas A kempis

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. -- Italo Calvino

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. --Clifton Fadiman

The end of reading is not more books but more life. -- Holbrook Jackson

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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. -- Kathleen Norris

It is the books we read before middle age that do most to mold our characters and influence our lives. -- Robert Pitman

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving equally of our affections. Fortunate if the best fall in our way during this susceptible and forming period of our lives. -- A. Bronson Alcott

There is a space on everyone's bookshelves for books one has outgrown but cannot give away. They hold one's youth between their leaves, like flowers pressed on a half-forgotten summer's day. -- Marion C. Garretty

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. -- Anatole France

A home without books is like a room without windows... A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness. -- Vincent Starrett

Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you. -- William E. Gladstone

A library is an organism developing side by side with the mind and character of its owner. It is the house of his spirit and is thus furnished progressively in accordance with the progress of his mental life. -- Richard Le Gallienne

A book shows the marks of its interaction with human beings. Pages become stained with coffee or tea and smudged with our fingerprints. Some of the pages show wear from frequent visits at favorite passages. Crumbs slip down into the space between the pages. We mark or highlight thoughts which strike us, scribble agreement or dissent in the margins. Over time, a cherished book takes on characteristics of its owner. -- A passion for books

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -- Mark Twain

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves. -- Joseph Epstein

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age. -- Robertson Davies

The right book placed in the right hands at the right time can make a lasting difference. -- A passion for books

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice...and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind , heart to heart. -- Gilbert Highet

Certain books I have read are like road markers, monuments to where I have traveled in my heart and my head in the journey of living. -- A passion for books

A public library, however, is no replacement for a personal library. The true lover of books wants to be surrounded by them. Over the years the books accumulate. And once acquired, they are always hard to part with. A good book becomes a friend, however neglected it might sometimes be. Even when you scratch your head and cannot remember why you ever purchased a particular volume, it is not always easy to give it up. Through the passing of years it has claimed its rightful place as a resident of your shelves. My personal library is a reflection of who I am, a record of the meanderings of my mind, attesting to transient interests and curiositied pursued. -- A passion for books

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