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Tag: books, reading, time

Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

books, reading, time

The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

books, reading, time

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

books, reading, time

I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or should I cease with that vain consumption–vain because it is endless–and begin to reread those books that had given me the intensest pleasure in my past.

books, reading, time

I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or should I cease with that vain consumption–vain because it is endless–and begin to reread those books that had given me the intensest pleasure in my past.

books, reading, time