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“Life is hard and we need people who’ve been in the thick of it to tell us a little something of how to survive and, also, thrive.”
― Anaik Alcasas, Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas

“reading for me is one of the central facets of existence. I cannot spend a day without a book. I have – in common with everybody – regular moments of mental unrest, roiling disquiet, uncertainty and anxiety. I manage them with a sedative, an analgesic: the escape into worlds created by other people. The invention of the novel, it seems to me, is one of the true triumphs of human endeavour. It codifies something magnificent within all of us: the act of empathy. When we read, we forge a connection with an author, and often then a common culture or tradition that is greater than us. Reading is an act of enlarging, of expansion. It makes our ‘I’ bigger than just ourselves; it stretches our sense of identity and experience.”
― Stig Abell, What to read next. How to make books part of your life.

“I always see exactly what I've just read.
You see what you've read in the water.
You see it in the sky.”
― Yōko Tawada, Where Europe Begins

“لستُ أفهم، إننا نعيشُ منذهلين الى حدٍ لا نلاحظ معه بأن ما يحدث لنا ،في كل لحظة، لا يمس ما يمكن أن يحدث لنا”
― José Saramago, All the Names