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Reading Quotes by Daniel Pennac
- I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
- Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
- 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…
- The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.
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