#volume

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. ↗

— David Grayson

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ↗

— Voltaire

#volume #art

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent. ↗

— Eugenie Anderson

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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