Nietzschean2008

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”
― Karl Barth

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin