“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”
“Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.”
“Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. ”
“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
“A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.”
“Sometimes I could scarcely breathe with the knowledge that for the rest of my life, whenever we wanted, Peter and I could lie down and do whatever we wished.”