Showing posts with label Quote. Show all posts
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Book Quotes





"You cannot fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisers, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of."

~Antonio Munoz Molinas, "The Power of the Pen"


"Perhaps all of us belong in more than one story"

~Dustfinger in Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath


"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

~Socrates




Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Scholar Phase Quote

"I have formed my plan and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for anything beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production, which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. By reading only six hours a day, I shall gain in the course of a twelvemonth a great deal of instruction which I know feel myself to want."

-Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen