wellreadlife

“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too – a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.”

“…but one can’t be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”

“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”

“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in public the crowd consumes him. Now choose.”

Better to take a book and not have time to read, than have time to read and have no book.

“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our lives. As Kafka said, “ The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”

“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”