Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
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One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fictio...
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For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
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What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning brigh...
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You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in t...
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Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the ad...
