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

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

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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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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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

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

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

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I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That’s a lot of coloring when you think about it. — Adam Sandler

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