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“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum

(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life