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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#emotions #library #age

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#choke #time #age

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine. ↗

— Elize Du Toit

#i #i see #lads #like #looks

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#reading #age

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun. ↗

— Kevin Smokler

#bibliophiles #books #fun #reader #reading

But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.” “What a strange thing to say at your age,” she laughed. “No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope —- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#age

Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit. ↗

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

#age

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#everyday #friendly #heads #knew #lived