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"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. John Ruskin

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life”. Mark Twain

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” Bertolt Brecht

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." John Burroughs

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrisson

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Emily Dickinson

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus

"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." Franz Kafka

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde

“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.” D.H. Lawrence

"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before." Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have” Seneca

". . . there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts." Charles Dickens