|Tom Raber: We never buy books just to read. If you really want to read books, just spend all day in the library?
It’s the feeling of superiority of possession that is the ironclad motive for addiction.
|Saul Bellow: I buy new books all the Time, and I can’t deny that I buy them quickly and read them slowly. But as long as they surround me, it’s like having the guarantor of a vast Life standing by.
|Kyogoku Natsuhiko: The really important books bring us a different life equal to this one, so one keeps searching until one meets that irreplaceable book.
|Borges: Sometimes I look at my Family‘s book collection and think I’ll die before I finish reading them, but I still can’t resist the temptation to buy new books.
No matter when I walk into a bookstore and see a book that interests me, such as poetry in Old English or Old Norse, I feel sorry that I can’t buy the book because I already have one at Home.
|Will Schwalbe:One of the things I like about paper books is that they have a real sense of presence. E-books have no form and are not easy to remember, but what is printed is a real presence that occupies space.
|Li Bihua: We understand that the best things in the world the most noble tastes are free, the clear wind and the bright moon lovers loved ones. The best things in the world are free.
|The most important thing is to have a collection of books that you can’t finish in your lifetime, but when you see a good book or a book that seems good, you can’t help but buy it, as if you can live forever to read it.
The book is a good one, but it is a good one.
|Hesse: No book in the world can bring you good luck, but they can make you quietly become yourself.
|Carrière: A collection of books is like a kind of companionship, a group of living friends and individuals.
The day you feel isolated and depressed, you can go to them. They’re always there.
It speaks to my heart.
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