One reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.