I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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