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I cannot live without books.

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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

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Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.

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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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