"I am reading six books at once,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
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“Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.”
“Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.”
“Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”
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“When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.”
“I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.”
“I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.”
More on Books
“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
“I cannot live without books.”