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Books have led some to learning and others to madness

Posted in Italy, Petrarch | No Comments »

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies

Posted in Eugenio Montale, Italy | No Comments »

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters

Posted in Dino De Laurentiis, Italy | No Comments »

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it

Posted in Carlo Goldoni, Italy | No Comments »

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb

Posted in Italy, Umberto Eco | No Comments »

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

Posted in Italy, Umberto Eco | No Comments »

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say

Posted in Italo Calvino, Italy | No Comments »

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through

Posted in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska | No Comments »

Even the worst book can give us something to think about

Posted in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska | No Comments »

Beware of the person of one book

Posted in Italy, Thomas Aquinas | No Comments »

A home without books is a body without soul

Posted in Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Republic | No Comments »

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well

Posted in Hungary, Kate Seredy | No Comments »

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us

Posted in Austria, Franz Kafka | No Comments »

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity

Posted in Proverbs, Spain | No Comments »

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket

Posted in China, Proverbs | No Comments »

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