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“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living