“The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts”
Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet
"Modo di filosofare".
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Variant: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 10, "The Further Adventures Of Toad"
“A book brings its own history to the reader.”
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The Last Page, p. 16.
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