

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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