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Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Forgive everybody but yourself.
Originality is only variation.
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Happiness is a form of courage.
Genius is intuition on fire.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
Genius is initiative on fire.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
The better the book the more room for the reader.
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
