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- The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space.…
- And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over…
- I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have…
- I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
- I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far…
- My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill…
- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
- Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for…
- Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
- In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
- We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books…
- I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited…
- Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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