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title: "3 Read Darkness Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Read Darkness quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Read Darkness sayings and thoughts."
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> [Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-zagajewski/read-for-yourselves-read-for-the-sake-of-your-inspiration-for-the/)

[Adam Zagajewski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-zagajewski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d75/adam-zagajewski-25144_books_read-for-yourselves-read-for-the-sake-of_741530.png)

> [ \[Arthur Koestler\] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/arthur-koestler-wrote-some-other-very-interesting-books-but-that-book/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8f/nat-hentoff-1615_arthur_arthur-koestler-wrote-some-other-very-in_1368211.png)

> [Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/oblivion-is-the-dark-page-whereon-memory-writes-her-light-beam/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54f/thomas-carlyle-207_beam_oblivion-is-the-dark-page-whereon-memory_3192246.jpg)

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