Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
A good book is an event in my life.
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