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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
“Literature is fire.”
“Reading is an act of freedom.”
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Books are companions that never fail you.”
“Books are the best companions in solitude.”
“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“It is the same with books. What we read is not what we see, but what we feel.”
