Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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