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"Beginning the greatest book of all time. Thinking about the magnitude of it." — Jul 21, 2024 06:47PM
"Beginning the greatest book of all time. Thinking about the magnitude of it." — Jul 21, 2024 06:47PM
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“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination if you are going to make use of all that the novelist - the great artist - gives you.”
― How Should One Read a Book?
― How Should One Read a Book?
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“The only advice, indeed, that one can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furrowed and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how and what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”
― How Should One Read a Book?
― How Should One Read a Book?
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“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with ever fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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“Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.”
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
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