Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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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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Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

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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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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ― Edward Bulwer Lytton

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