If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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 think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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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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Maps can’t show the real destination—it’s always somewhere inside you.

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

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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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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

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