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

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

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke