Daniel Pennac Quotes

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• I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
• L’architecture est art de suggestion.
• All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
• Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
• I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
• The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want,…
• Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically…
• Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right…
• Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
• A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.
• We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or…
• We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read…
• When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!
• The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

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