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Quote by Thomas Helm
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. - T

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. – Thomas Helm

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple

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Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014

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