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“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul—BOOKS.” - Emily Dickinson
“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.” - Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” - Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.” - Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road