Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Books and people are hard to compare.
Books are my weakness.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
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