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Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#literature #reading #beauty

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#favorites #reading #change

لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا. ↗

— Malcolm X

#change #malcom-x #reading #change

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live". ↗

— Jane Evershed

#inspirational #change

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life. ↗

— Helen Exley

#change #inspiration #life #reading #thought-provoking

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

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And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#joseph-conrad #life

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#anyone #anything #been #book #get

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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