What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.

Quote by Andrei Sinyavsky

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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had...

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had...

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a...

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a...

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap...

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit...

For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit...

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most...

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most...

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall...

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for...

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for...

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable...

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable...

We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very...

We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very...

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity,...

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity,...

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for...

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for...