I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman

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Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. -- Walt Whitman

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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. -- Walt Whitman

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PENGUIN BOOKS THE TRUTHS WE HOLD Kamala D. ― Kamala Harris

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When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China. - Jean Fritz

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He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ― Madeleine L'Engle

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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