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«Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.»
Author: Owen Meredith | About: Books | Keywords: books, Books not, master, read
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
«I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read»
«Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?»
«Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.»
«I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.»
«I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: books, Teach, The New
«Only your friends steal your books»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: books, steal
«It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books»
«It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude»

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