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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.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.