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

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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

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

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

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

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