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“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
― Elizabeth Drew

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
― Rudy Francisco

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish.”
― S.I. Hayakawa

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
― William Wordsworth

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience