“If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”

“His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber”

“Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere ho la certezza di essere ancora felice":”

“I dream of books!”

“I am fanatic book lover.”

“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devicesafter a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”

“The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as...”

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”