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"Shelley . . . was always reading; at his meals a book lay by his side, on the table, open.
He invariably sallied forth, book in hand, reading to himself, if he was alone."
Extract from Thomas Jefferson Hogg’s biography
🖌️Percy Bysshe Shelley (b. 4 August 1792)
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child.
Marguerite Duras (b. 4 April 1914)
“It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book… from the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
There’s no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There’s a book that matters to a reader.
Maggie Stiefvater
“somewhere in a book there is a sentence waiting for us to give a meaning to our existence”
- Miguel de Cervantes
“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
” Walt Whitman
Never stop wandering into wonder.
- Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
- Andrei Tarkovsky -