“There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.”
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
“Upon the floor uncounted medals lay
Like things of little value”
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Context: Upon the floor uncounted medals lay
Like things of little value; here and there
Stood golden caldrons, that might well outweigh
The biggest midst an emperor's copper-ware,
And golden cups were set on tables fair,
Themselves of gold; and in all hollow things
Were stored great gems, worthy the crowns of kings.
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. 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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Mesiras Nefesh, quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.”
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“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer