People haven't always been there for me but music always has. ― Taylor Swift

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” — Walter Bagehot

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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Hope doesn’t need evidence—it just needs space.

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I know that I’ve been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That’s a beautiful thing. — DJ Khaled

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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

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