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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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