القراءة مثل التنفس، إنها وظيفة حياتية أساسية.
أعطتني القراءة عذرا مقبولا لعزلتي، بل ربما أعطت مغزى لتلك العزلة المفروضة علي.
I’ve often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place...
We read to understand, or to begin to understand
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie...
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
I began by making assumptions about the stories Borges chose for me -- that Kipling's prose would be stilted, Stevenson's childish, Joyce's unintelligible -- buy very soon prejudice gave way to experi...
كان كل كتاب أقرؤه عالما قائما بذاته ألجأ إليه.
شيئا ما يموت في داخلي عندما أستغني عن كتبي.
Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
I could perhaps live without writing. I don't think I could live without reading.
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole univer...
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because...
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