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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath