"To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think."
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity."
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Source: Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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