Franz Kafka Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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

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Books were my pass to personal freedom.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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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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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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