„I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!“

— Jane Austen

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„I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.“
— Jane Austen
„How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!“
— Jane Austen
„Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.“
— Colette
„All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.“
— Stanley Kubrick