"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

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Source : Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.

Anthony Trollope

#Inspirational Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“A library is all the university you will ever need.”
“The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.”
“We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.”
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
“My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.”
“I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.”
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
“For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.”

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