“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons. Jojen
“The phrase, "One dies before one has lived."”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
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Context: Love is of source unknown, yet it grows ever deeper. The living may die of it, by its power the dead live again. Love is not love at its fullest if one who lives is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has so died. And must the love that comes in dream necessarily be unreal? For there is no lack of dream lovers in this world.
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Laughter (1920)
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“For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.”
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Don Quixote's epitaph
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV
