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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt
Thomas Merton on Books
"Books can speak to us like God, like men, or like the noise of the city....
They speak to us like God when they bring us light and peace and fill us with silence...when we desire never to leave them.
They speak to us like men when we desire to hear them again.
They speak to us like the noise of the city when they hold us captive by a weariness that tells us nothing, gives us no peace, and no support, nothing to remember, and yet will not let us escape."
They speak to us like God when they bring us light and peace and fill us with silence...when we desire never to leave them.
They speak to us like men when we desire to hear them again.
They speak to us like the noise of the city when they hold us captive by a weariness that tells us nothing, gives us no peace, and no support, nothing to remember, and yet will not let us escape."
Charles Kingsley on Books
- Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
THE SENSE AND SENSIBILITY BICENTENARY CHALLENGE 2011
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