One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.
When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
No privacy left. No manners.
Miró hacia la biblioteca. Aquella sabiduría no calmaría nunca su fuego; siglos y siglos de palabras no podían satisfacer aquel deseo imperativo e irracional.
A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To r...
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.
It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of li...
Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?
i read to escape reality.
Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End".
Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.