Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees 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.
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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 are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
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