"It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol."
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"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."
"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
"There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book."
"We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist."
"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."
"Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness."
"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)"
"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."
"You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book."
"She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself."
"A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."
"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
"Of course. You get everything from books."
"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."
"اعذرني !!لن ألوث طهري ونقائي لمجرد إرضائك ،ولن أدنس مبادئي لأكسب شرف قربك مني ..ولن أنزع رداء الطفولة من روحي من ذاتي من وجداني ..لأكون في نظرك أنثى كاملة النضوجهذه أنا إن أردتني بطهري بطفولتي بنقائي بوفائي بعطائي !!وإن لم ترغب بنجلائك كما هي ..إذهب إليهن وغادرنيفكثيرات ياسيدي من هن بحجم رغباتك !وقليلات / قليلات من هن بحجم نقائي !"
"I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose."
"Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!"