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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known...more

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On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favour...more

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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favo...more

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite boo...more

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And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity...more

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When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a...more

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The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immateria...more

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We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve ou...more

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That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance,...more