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The author is the interface between earth and sky. Between life and text. It is he who can lead people out of time and into forever …

Languages is a means of resurrection. … Words must be made living not only until the cock crows but so the they cannot die anymore. I have to suck dead time out of the word and blow living time in, mouth to mouth—and force it to breathe, like a drowning victim. I have to resurrect it to eternal life with our breath. I have to use words to create a reality where there is no death …

– Michaïl Sjisjkin – Calligraphy Lesson

Ph : RS ParkeHarrison

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

– Emil Cioran –

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

– Pascal Mercier – Night Train to Lisbon

Ph : Leszek Paradowski

My library is an archive of longings.

– Susan Sontag –

Ph : Bruce Weber

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

– Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Ph : Ruslan Lobanov

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

– Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo

Your favorite author knows you too well, without knowing you at all.

– Vanshika Dhyani –

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

– André Maurois –

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

– Anthony Esolen –

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

– Albert Einstein –

Ph : Katerina Plotnikova

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