4,370 Quotes About Literature

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity. They have reflected back to me,everything that I refuseto See in myself.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.

Sleep is death enjoyed.

Si dos individuos están siempre de acuerdo en todo, puedo asegurar que uno de los dos piensa por ambos

Si solo lees los libros que todos los demás están leyendo, solo puedes pensar en lo que todos los demás están pensando.

Para aquel que roba, o pide prestado un libro y a su dueño no lo devuelve, que se le mude en sierpe la mano y lo desgarre. Que los gusanos de los libros le roan las entrañas como lo hace el remordimiento que nunca cesa