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“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.” ― E.M. Forster

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“I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” ― H.P. Lovecraft

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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes

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“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was youn...

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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ― Italo Calvino

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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” ― P.G. Wodehouse

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesnR...

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“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

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The verb reading, like the verb to love and the verb dreaming, doesn’t bear the imperative mode. I always advised to my students that if a book bores them leave it; That they don’t read it because it’s famous,...

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