Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.

—Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

—Cornelia Funke

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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you cannot help it.

—Oscar Wilde

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Reading is beautiful.

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