- "We like lists because we don't want to die," - Umberto Eco
- "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." - The History Boys by English author Alan Bennett, which sums up why he likes to read
- I think I’m just breathing, that’s all. And there’s a difference between breathing and being alive. - John Boyne
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things (me) are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things (you) are the cultivated. For those there is hope. They are the elected to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. - Oscar Wilde
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