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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"Read good books to improve your life."
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"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
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"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
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"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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"He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived."
Fulfillment
"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."
Nature
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
Honesty
"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"
Morality
"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."
Art
"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
Honesty
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
Wisdom
"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
Communication
"Philosophy is doubt."
Philosophy
"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
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