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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

—Socrates, Plato's Crito
Category: PhilosophyMood: ReflectiveTags: #reading #learning #books #growth
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for nothing but to inspire.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: CreativityMood: SereneTags: #books #reading #paradise #imagination
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

—James Baldwin, James Baldwin's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #reading #books #empathy #connection
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

—Franz Kafka, Diaries (1910–1923)
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.

—Plato, Phaedrus
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #books #reading #soul #knowledge
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