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Highlights tagged "reading"

Yes, like Mummy, the library gives you a magic kiss and everything’s better. Love life in ruins? Hate everyone? Despair over the state of the planet? Headache? Insomnia? Indigestion? Corns? I can tell you, there’s nothing the library can’t cure.
—Sophie Divry, The library of unrequited love. Highlighted
# learning # reading
Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition
—Sophie Divry, The library of unrequited love. Highlighted
# reading # grief
Existentialism Is a Humanism = 194 SAR. If you just remember that, your night will not have been wasted.
—Sophie Divry, The library of unrequited love. Highlighted
# perspective # reading
When that fanatic Dewey classified literature, he set up a monument of ethnocentrism
—Sophie Divry, The library of unrequited love. Highlighted
# perspective # reading
Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilization has become a little safer.
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# reading # growth # character