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“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.”
― A Life with Books
― A Life with Books
“I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. Difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias,” which is Latin for
“It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.”
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“It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.”
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“Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.”
― Eight Perfect Murders
― Eight Perfect Murders
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