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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. - Author object (455)

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Author object (314)

A library is infinity under a roof. - Author object (195)

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. - Author object (195)

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. - Author object (423)

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - Author object (423)

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. - Author object (423)

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - Author object (423)

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh. - Author object (167)

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you. - Author object (167)

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff. - Author object (167)

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. - Author object (167)

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Author object (514)

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. - Author object (514)

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Author object (514)

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. - Author object (514)

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. - Author object (514)

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. - Author object (514)

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. - Author object (514)

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. - Author object (514)