A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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A home without books is a body without soul.
Books do furnish a room.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
I cannot live without books.
A room is not a room without natural light.
An art book is a museum without walls.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
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