"The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them."

-- Gilles Menage

#Book Quotes #Library Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!”
“Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination”

Source : "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester, www.theguardian.com. 1956.
“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.”

Source : Remark to to Ogata Taketora, the Editor in Chief of Asahi Shimbun, on January 09, 1942. "The Reluctant Admiral". Book by Hiroyuki Agawa, 1979.
“With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!”
“In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.”
“For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.”
“A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.”

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