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Sven Birkerts
“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”
Sven Birkerts

Muriel Barbery
“... c'est peut-être ça la vie : beaucoup de désespoir mais aussi quelques moments de beauté où le temps n'est plus le même. C'est comme si les notes de musique faisaient un genre de parenthèses dans le temps, de supension, un ailleurs ici même, un toujours dans le jamais.

Oui, c'est ça, un toujours dans le jamais.”
Muriel Barbery, L'Élégance du hérisson

Muriel Barbery
“It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Jon Krakauer
“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Muriel Barbery
“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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