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“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde