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“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” ― Samuel Butler

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“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! B...

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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” ― C.S...

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“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.” ― Oscar Wilde

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“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myria...

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“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” ― Malcolm X

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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” ― Harold Bloom

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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” ― Marcel Proust

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“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, ir...

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