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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

—Socrates, Plato's Crito
Category: PhilosophyMood: ReflectiveTags: #reading #learning #books #growth
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It is more necessary to study men than books.

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections on Diverse Subjects (Réflexions diverses)
Category: PsychologyMood: BoldTags: #observation #human-nature #books #study
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He who seeks truth in outward books alone is like one who reads the recipe and thinks his hunger is satisfied.

—Kabir, Bijak of Kabir
Category: Direct ExperienceMood: PhilosophicalTags: #kabir #experience #books #practice #wisdom
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O seeker, wash away your scholarly book-learning with the wine of divine ecstasy; the heart knows secrets no pen can ever write.

—Hafez, The Divan of Hafez
Category: Wisdom & Self-KnowledgeMood: BoldTags: #hafez #books #heart #ecstasy #direct-truth
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: CreativityMood: SereneTags: #books #reading #paradise #imagination
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

—James Baldwin, James Baldwin's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #reading #books #empathy #connection
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

—Franz Kafka, Diaries (1910–1923)
Category: CreativityMood: BoldTags: #books #reading #awakening #literature
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia (On Friendship)
Category: PhilosophyMood: SereneTags: #simplicity #books #nature #contentment
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.

—Plato, Phaedrus
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #books #reading #soul #knowledge
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