"Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves."

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Source : Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

Holbrook Jackson

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“Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.”
“Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.”
“I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.”

Source : "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.
“only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton
“I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.”
“The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.”

Source : "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework" by Bill Dembski, billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.
“If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.”
“Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.”

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