William Dean Howells Quote

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.


Letter to Charles Eliot Norton (April 6, 1903).


The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.