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“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

“Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.”
― Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays