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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian