I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

William Hope Hodgson
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When Robert Louis Stevenson said, “I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown,” he was referring to how reading opens up imagination. Reading gives someone an opportunity to imagine things beyond their own comprehension. It helps them to see what they are missing.

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