To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty.

Author: Samuel Butler

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Books are like imprisoned souls, till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms and to keep other people's books out of mine.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.