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It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten. ↗

— Anna Wintour

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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#feelings #life #understanding #life

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

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You can have a normal life. It's not too late for you." I nearly laughed. "You've clearly never met my parents. Normal was never an option. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

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And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ↗

— Christopher Morley

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The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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