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"Literature" Quotes

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

― Abraham Lincoln

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

"Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it."

― Rumi

"Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it."

― Rumi

"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."

― Sigmund Freud

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

― Theodore Roosevelt

"A man should always have his diary on him. That way, he’s guaranteed to have something incredible to read."

― Matthew McConaughey

"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."

― Vincent Van Gogh