Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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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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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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