Ōkubo Toshimichi

Dᴏɴ'ᴛ ɢᴇᴛ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴡᴀʏ. {Bookworm. Cool, Calm, & Collected. Warrior from Satsuma. Dislikes alcohol and wants it banned. #DestinedtoLove #Otome #Bot}

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"Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

[Ōkubo Toshimichi @Okubooks]

"One best book is equal to a hundred friends, but one good friend is equal to a library."

[Ōkubo Toshimichi @Okubooks]

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

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"Life is a book full of blank pages. You write the story as you go."

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"The odd thing about people who own many books is how they always want more."

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"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

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"People don't realize how a whole man's life can be changed by one book."

[Ōkubo Toshimichi @Okubooks]

"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book."

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"Books were safer than other people anyway."

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"A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar."

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"Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high."

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"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."

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"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."

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"Book collecting is an obsession , an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate."

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"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very original afterall."

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"Once you read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

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"My library is an archive of longings."

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"My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."

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"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."