stuff your eyes with wonder

❝ I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all. ❞
José Saramago, The Notebook

- Did you know that I can be in two places at the same time?
- No… that’s impossible.
- Do you want me to show you?
- …


❝ I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ❞
Kurt Vonnegut


❝ When I am deep in a book, my life no longer exists. ❞
Read and reread Cynthia Cruz’s beautiful, mesmerizing essay, On Reading, today. (via therumpus)

❝ Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the “real” everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human. ❞
Susan Sontag, A Letter to Borges


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