"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

Orwell, George on liberty
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"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Byron, Lord on words
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"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it."

Proverb, Russian on happiness
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"The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone"

Javan on praise
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"A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat."

Miller, Henry on books - reading
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"This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing."

Miller, Henry on books - reading   

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices."

Mann, Horace on books - reading
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"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."

Mallarme, Stephane on books - reading   

"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."

Milton, John on books - reading   

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on books - reading   

"The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent."

Orwell, George on books - reading
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"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on books - reading
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"This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force."

Parker, Dorothy on books - reading
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"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

Pound, Ezra on books - reading   

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

Rochman, Hazel on books - reading
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"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."

Lytton, Lord Edward on books - reading   

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

Lowell, James Russell on books - reading   

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

Lowell, Amy on books - reading
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"Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction."

Johnson on books - reading   

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on books - reading
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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."

Kempis, Thomas on books - reading
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"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me."

Lamb, Charles on books - reading   

"What is reading, but silent conversation."

Landor, Walter Savage on books - reading
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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Lee, Harper on books - reading
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"For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own."

Lejeune, Caroline on books - reading   

"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on books - reading   

"A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on books - reading   

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on books - reading   

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on books - reading
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

Locke, John on books - reading
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"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

Rohn, Jim on books - reading
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"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on books - reading
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"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."

Unknown, Source on books - reading
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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

Vaneigem, Raoul on books - reading
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