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“Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and to be motivated.
I read to understand things I've never
been exposed to.
I read when I'm crabby, when I've just
said monumentally dumb things to the
people I love.
I read for strength to help me when I
feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I read when I'm angry at the whole
world.
I read when everything is going right.
I read to find hope.
I read because I'm made up not just of
skin and bones, of sights, feelings,
and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm
also made up of words.
Words describe my thoughts and what's
hidden in my heart.
Words are alive--when I've found a
story that I love, I read it again and
again, like playing a favorite song
over and over.
Reading isn't passive--I enter the
story with the characters, breathe
their air, feel their frustrations,
scream at them to stop when they're
about to do something stupid, cry with
them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a
friend.
A book is a friend.
You can never have too many.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“Lire un bon livre, ça redonne envie de vivre, ça vous donne envie de partir, A la recherche du temps perdu.”
― Pierre Perret

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.”
― Victor Hugo

“« Un livre de cuisine, ce n'est pas un livre de dépenses, mais un livre de recettes. »”
― Sacha Guitry

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé, The Shooting Star

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

“قال لي سالم بيه: "أنت تقرأ كثيرا..أنت مجنون!" .. قلت له إن القراءة بالنسبة لي نوع رخيص من المخدرات. لا أفعل بها شيئاً سوى الغياب عن الوعي. في الماضي -تصور هذا- كانوا يقرءون من أجل إكتساب الوعي ! ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Il est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“On ne lit pas impunément des niaiseries”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“الكلام نوعان
كلام فارغ
و
كلام مليان بكلام فارغ”
― أحمد رجب, كلام فارغ

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Hold on, Nobita-kun, I'll come rescue you.”
― Fujiko F. Fujio, ドラえもん 1 [Doraemon 1]

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“فالعمى هو أيضاً أن تعيش في عالم انعدم فيه كل أمل”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“ديني لنفسي ودين الناس للناس”
― الحلاج

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi