The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.

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What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

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We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

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The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

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Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

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Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

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Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

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