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“I had spent the day friendless, lonely and sad, a stranger to myself. After drowning the day on the sea shore, I walked back to my empty house on the deserted street. The moment I opened the door, the book on my table flipped its pages and said: "Friend, Where were you for so long?”

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“Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”

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“In your seasons of defeat, do not forget that God can still grant you victory. Think of such a possibility.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

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“All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.”

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.”

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Book:Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost

Source: Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost

“You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.”

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Book:A Clockwork Orange

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“Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. They should teach you this in school, but they don’t.”

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Book:The Vulnerables

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“He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller in unknown countries and as he pushed forward the enterprise fascinated him; he read emotionally, as other men read pure literature, and his heart leaped as he discovered in noble words what himself had obscurely felt.”

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Book:Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage

“Perché c’è un ordine segreto. I libri non puoi metterli a caso. L’altro giorno ho riposto Cervantes accanto a Tolstoj. E ho pensato: se vicino ad Anna Karenina c’è Don Chisciotte, di sicuro quest’ultimo farà di tutto per salvarla.”

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Author:Ettore Scola

“Prepare for victory, even if it seems impossible. God, who has the power to change seasons, can make it possible.”

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Source: A Manual for Victory