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Reading
«Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to»
«Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.»
«For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.»
«Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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About:
Books,
Reading
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Keywords:
brightest,
covers,
damaged,
dampness,
floated,
in the air,
In the House,
livid,
parchment,
parchments,
prospered,
purest,
rotten,
smell,
the books,
unbearable
«By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.»
Author: John Dewey
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Educator,
Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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About:
Reading
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Keywords:
castles,
Castles in The Air,
castle in the air,
characteristic,
features,
frustrated,
in the air,
shrewd,
shrewdest,
underlie,
underlies,
underlying
«Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.»
Author: Madonna
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Actress,
Singer)
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About:
Celebrity,
Reading,
Sex
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Keywords:
appetite,
insatiable,
nymphomaniac,
rave,
raved,
raves,
raving,
ravings,
sexual
«Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting»
«Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.»
«Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Books,
Mind,
Reading
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Keywords:
author,
mind reading,
reader,
reads,
The Author,
the book
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Reading
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Keywords:
candour,
chasm,
chasms,
defects,
diffidence,
forcible,
impute,
imputes,
imputing,
injuries,
repair,
seeming,
Socrates