A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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

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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. --Swami Vivekananda

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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

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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ― Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

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