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Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.

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People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

Fragments
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book...
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Mansfield Park
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

The Common Reader
Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Jacob's Room
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Orlando
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
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