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“It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading.”

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Book:A Place to Hang the Moon

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“The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.”

Books Marxism Karl Marx

Author:Karl Marx

“It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?”

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Book:Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

“Wait for the dust of reading to settle; for the conflict and the questioning to die down; walk, talk, pull the dead petals from a rose, or fall asleep. Then suddenly without our willing it, for it is thus that Nature undertakes these transitions, the book will return, but differently. It will float to the top of the mind as a whole.”

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Book:How Should One Read a Book?

Source: How Should One Read a Book?

“They were all her favourite books, the books she had grown up with, the books that had found her at the right time, that had given her comfort when she needed it, had given her an escape, an opportunity to live beyond her life, an opportunity to love more powerfully, a chance to open up and let people in.”

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Book:The Reading List

Source: The Reading List

“I can’t see Jupiter,” Joseph said. “The moon’s too bright. And I don’t know where she is.”

Books Jupiter Orbiting Jupiter

Book:Orbiting Jupiter

Source: Orbiting Jupiter

“I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?”

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Book:Gather Together in My Name

Source: Gather Together in My Name

“...books, most of them old and with that smell that old books have. Probably not everyone likes that smell, but I do. It's musty, but good must.”

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Book:Fairy Tale

Source: Fairy Tale

“Do not be weary of doing great things. One day, your victory will be your reality.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

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Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.”

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Author:Simon Montefiore

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