Book Lust

Famous quotes containing the words book and/or lust:

    “A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “When I heard the Earth-song,
    I was no longer brave;
    My avarice cooled
    Like lust in the chill of the grave.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)