“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
Around the World in 80 Books
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