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What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

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Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

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Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim
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Born: August 31, 1866
Died: February 9, 1941 (aged 74)
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