"A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself."

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Source : Andrew Lang (1892). “The Library”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

Andrew Lang

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.”
“To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.255, Feminist Press at CUNY
“To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.”
“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.”
“Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.”
“That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.”
“It is the Mass the matters.”
“There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.”

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