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last updated: November 28, 2023

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.
-- Christopher Paolini

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I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.
-- Christopher Paolini

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I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

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To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
-- Will Thomas

Source : Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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“These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive.”
“Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.”
“I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.”
“Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.”
“All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.”

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“We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.”
“Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.”
“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.”
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
“...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.”