Bibliophilia Quotes

• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Real

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.213, Melville House

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• Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Book, Pages, Fingertips

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.58, Macmillan

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• We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Animal, Glasses

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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