Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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Alberto Manguel
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Then you, the reader come along. You open...
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David Almond
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Augustine Of Hippo
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very...
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Alberto Manguel
Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens
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Shilpi
More Quotes By Dermot Davis
It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.
People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.
Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.
