Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it. Of course, you have to read the books, too. Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.
This is how books should be catalogued (by lukedupont)
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
from Orlando by Virginia Woolf
I require books as I require air.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.