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Quotes about Book

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries."
-Frankenstein

unknown : Gaia Child
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Source: Frankenstein
Contributed by: Nancy Rocha. More quotes added by Nancy from this | all sources
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I don't want to speak about God, because I am not here to review a book I haven't read entirely.

Domus Ulixes : Some Kid
Frederik Kerling
 
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"Oh for a book and a shady nook."

John Wilson
Source: Bookmark
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"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us.  If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?"

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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"Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened."

Walter Russell : Gaia Child
Walter Russell
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of  
paper and glue, you sell him a whole new life.  

Christopher Morley
Source: --Christopher Morley
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 91
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg. More quotes added by Chris from this | all sources
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 88
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg. More quotes added by Chris from this | all sources
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 25
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg. More quotes added by Chris from this | all sources
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The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 24
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg. More quotes added by Chris from this | all sources
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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 24
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg. More quotes added by Chris from this | all sources
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No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

unknown : Gaia Child
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Source: Hyperion, Page: 203
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg. More quotes added by Chris from this | all sources
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Edith Lovejoy
 
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