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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis