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«Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.»
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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«I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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booked, books, book up, cottage, cottages, desire, full, In a, king, King He, like kings, make full, on the books, poor, rather, read, The King I, The King of Kings, would
«Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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booked, books, book up, fellow, More popular than, on the books, popular, popular with, should, strange, such, The Fellows, unpopular, written
«Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Best Book, books, conscience, ideal, sleepy, This Is
«I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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a few, booked, books, Books not, book up, children, few, on purpose, on the books, purpose, purposing, wrote
«I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.»
«Only your friends steal your books»
«It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books»
«It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
books, Great Books, lost, multitude, numb, number, part, play, rest, small, small number
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