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“Les livres ont les mêmes ennemis que l'homme : le feu, l'humide, les bêtes, le temps, et leur propre contenu.”

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“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.”

Book:The Message

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“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.”

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“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.”

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Book:Honey for a Child's Heart

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“I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.”

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“My books are a word feast.”

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Author:Lori R. Lopez

“[...] afinal há de se encontrar esperança no rosto de uma filha, é por isso que se tem filhos, para encontrar o que acaba em si no mais próximo de ser um eu. é um consolo, talvez o único, que ao menos um filho ainda tenha alguma coisa que se possa admirar.”

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Book:Uma delicada coleção de ausências

Source: Uma delicada coleção de ausências

“Os livros mudam o destino das pessoas”

Book:The House of Paper

Source: The House of Paper

“Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.”

Author:Thomas Bartholin

“It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.”

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Author:Julian Barnes

“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.”

Book:Dangerous Laughter

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