2 Quotes & Sayings By Barbey Daurevilly

Barbey d'Aurevilly (1807-1889) was a French poet and writer. Quotes: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written." "A book can be judged by the man who admires it." "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched; they must be felt with the heart." "No man ever wrote without having a secret meaning under it all." "I pity those who do not read, for those who do not read live in a dream world where the truth is unknown and where nothing is as it seems." "When we read we do not merely learn about what happened. We become involved in the story and we enter into the whole of humanity that it describes."