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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood