R.L MiddletonTo read is to truly escape from oneself
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To read is to truly escape from oneself. When you read, you get to know new things and get to learn new things. Reading forces you to be open minded and think outside of your own experiences. Reading allows you to travel beyond the world in which you live.
That is why it is important to read not just for yourself but also for others. If you only ever read books that are about yourself, then you will never know how someone else feels or thinks. Reading makes you greater than yourself, but if that is all that reading does, then reading is useless.
Reading will help you learn how to be better than yourself.
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