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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."
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"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
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