Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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Do not go hire the path may lead, Go in a state where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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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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Life isn’t about finding the path; it’s about leaving a trail.

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

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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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Where words leave off, music begins. —Heinrich Heine

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