The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
- Alan Bennett
The
more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their
love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.
- Dante Alighieri
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
- Alan Bennett
I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.
Tenzing Norgay
Jose Ortega y Gasset, philosopher and essayist
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