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Quote by Antal Szerb

“Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.”

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Antal Szerb was a prominent Hungarian writer known for his novels and literary criticism. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and complex narrative structures. more

“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”

Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

“If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.”

Ifs Years Book States Values Reading Changed Things Have Changed

Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

“The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.”

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Author:Sven Birkerts

“Where am I when I am involved in a book?”

Book Involved

Book:Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

Source: Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”

Soul Language Layers Peril Ozone Ozone Layer

Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

“Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now.”

Unique Shots Radiation

Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

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