Tabinda

“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
― J.M. Coetzee

“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books