Things were happening in New York City—they always are—but none of it affected me. This was the beauty of sleep—reality detached itself and appeared in my mind as casually as a movie or a dream. It was easy to ignore things that didn’t
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“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
― The Library at Night
― The Library at Night
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“They watched without talking, each in his own way exploring the edges of the hole that had appeared in their lives, so as not to fall in.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.”
― The Book of Lost Things
― The Book of Lost Things
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