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Please keep recommending books to your friends, even when they still haven’t read the last one. It is a lovely thing to be reading alone and think of someone you wish were there.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations; it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
- Honoré de Balzac
In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Dissention, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you are not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, but you are not.
- Primo Levi
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
- Wei Hui
All of the 2022 National Book Award Finalists, read and reviewed
A look at this year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature:
vox.com/culture/23437466/nat…
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute.
“I’ll make you, again, the best Sneetches on beaches and all it will cost you is ten dollars eaches.”
- Dr. Seuss
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.
- Thomas Mann
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.
- Mircea Eliade
The Defiance of Celebrating Literature in the Midst of War
How this year’s Lviv BookForum in Ukraine became an act of solidarity.
foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/22…
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
- Zora Neale Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [Books] taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
- James Baldwin
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BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”
