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Reading teaches us receptivity....It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan....And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive the world, also possessed temporarily.
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How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question.
We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a
lifetime--becomes the answer.
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
― Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
Yet when we do manage to create ourselves anew, isn’t there always a suspicion that the new identity fits over the old like a second skin, at times itchy or uncomfortably tight, not quite covering the most vulnerable patches?
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