MarieSabine RogerBooks should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.
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Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact. When you fall in love with a book, you should never feel as though you are betraying the author. We meet authors as people and as friends.
They become dear to us and we love them for who they are as people and not for their writing. If it were the other way around, we would make the author feel as though they were wrong for writing something beautiful and inspiring because we care about them as a person and it would be a betrayal of friendship if we did not love what they wrote.
Source: Das Labyrinth Der WaRter
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