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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
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“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
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