Quotes by Lejeune, Caroline

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline