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Reading quotes

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I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.



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



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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.



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Books are the mirrors of the soul.



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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.



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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.



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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.



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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.



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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.