Books are food...libraries so many dishes of meat, served out for several palates...we eat them from love or necessity, as other foods, but most from love. ----Holbrook Jackson
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
----Abraham Lincoln
A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within...
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Books are food...libraries so many dishes of meat, served out for several palates...we eat them from love or necessity, as other foods, but most from love. ----Holbrook Jackson
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
----Abraham Lincoln
A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us.
----Franz Kafka
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been
ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. ----C.S. Lewis
Ancora imparo. (I am still learning.) ----Michelangelo at 87.
I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights, splashing all over the pages. -----Dylan Thomas
Reading ought to be an act of homage to the God of all truth. We open our hearts to words that reflect the reality He has created or the greater Reality which He is. It is also an act of humility and reverence towards other men and women who are the instruments by which God communicated His truth to us. -----Thomas Merton
We must forever continue to indulge our insatiable bibliophilic passions, journeying in the illimitable realm of learning and ideas, offering along our lifelong odyssey our most profound gratitude and acknowledgement of indebtedness for those who through the ages have authored the books that have inestimably contributed to our artistic and cultural patrimony, those objects we so obsessively and lovingly collect, voraciously read, highly venerate, and forever cherish---wherein resides such infinite potential and power to entertain and amuse us, enthrall and enchant us, captivate our imaginations and our fantasies, transport us into fantastically conceived worlds, offer us supernal beauty and delight, provoke the very human emotions of joy, sorrow, and love, and engage and inspire our minds with the accumulated eruditon and timeless wisdom of history that powerfully, and ineluctably, connects us with the divine.
I am so glad to be a member of Shelfari, connecting with fellow
bibliophiles.
Let us read....
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