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“The zealous student will be very ready to put into action what he has read, rather than only to understand it. For there is less hardship in not knowing what you want than in not being able to carry out what you know.”

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“What are you doing?” Demos’s eyes followed me. “There never seems to be enough time to explore the libraries.” Demos’s eyebrow rose. “Did you hit your head?” “I’m serious.” I sighed. “We have this gift to transport ourselves to any library anywhere in the world. It’s amazing, but we never get to enjoy it, to just sit in one and read books written ages ago.”

Reading Library

Book:Assassin of Truths

Source: Assassin of Truths

“My dad used to say that giving someone a poem is like gifting them a feeling. Everything will change from black and white into color.”

Feelings Poetry Reading

Book:Kissing in America

Source: Kissing in America

“If I encounter difficulties in reading, I do not gnaw my nails over them; I leave them there. I do nothing without gaiety.”

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Author:Montaigne, Michel de

“Denkst du nicht auch, dass man von Zeit zu Zeit Geschichten lesen sollte, in denen alles etwas anders ist als in unserer Welt? Nichts lehrt einen besser zu fragen, warum die Bäume grün und nicht rot sind und warum man nur fünf und nicht sechs Finger hat.”

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Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“We both know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.”

Reading Lost Inkheart Cornelia Funke

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.”

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Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was as if we didn’t know where we ended and books began. Books were our weather, our environment, our clothing. We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. While it would be easy to say that we escaped into books, it might be truer to say that books escaped into us. Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties. They showed us what was possible. We had been living with whatever was close at hand, whatever was given, and books took us great distances. We had known only domestic emotions and they showed us what happens to emotions when they are homeless. Books gave us balance--the young are so unbalanced that anything can make them fall. Books steadied us; it was as if we carried a heavy bag of them in each hand and they kept us level. They gave us gravity.”

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Book:Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

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