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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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions,...

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions,...

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the...

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the...

Joey: Beth is really sick, I don't think they can do anything for her. Rachel:...

Joey: Beth is really sick, I don't think they can do anything for her. Rachel:...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book...

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books...

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to...

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to...

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a...

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a...

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do...

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book...

Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book...

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness,...

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness,...

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary...

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...