LIJFSPREUKEN
 "Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma
Gandhi
"Een kamer zonder boeken is als een lichaam zonder ziel."
— Marcus
Tullius Cicero
 "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature
has a purpose."
— Garrison
Keillor
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a
good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane
Austen (Northanger
Abbey)
"Ik heb me altijd voorgesteld
dat het Paradijs een soort bibliotheek is."
— Jorge
Luis Borges
 "I
do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I
consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without
any superhuman authority behind it."
— Albert
Einstein
"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic;
it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are
willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."
— Flannery
O'Connor (Mystery
and Manners: Occasional Prose)
 "De
wereld is een boek en zij die niet reizen, lezen slechts één
pagina."
— Augustine
of Hippo
"A man should hear a little music, read a little
poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life."
— Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
"The earth provides enough to satisfy every
man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma
Gandhi
 "Lees niet, zoals kinderen, om je te vermaken, of zoals de
ambitieuzen, om te leren. Neen, lees om te leven."
— Gustave
Flaubert
"Heb je een tuin en een bibliotheek, dan heb je alles wat je
nodig hebt."
— Marcus
Tullius Cicero
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the
darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine
L'Engle
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and
slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while
reading."
— William
Styron
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo
Picasso
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry
is painting that is felt rather than seen."
— Leonardo
da Vinci
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the
unknowable."
— Leonard
Bernstein
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