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Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

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Milorad Pavić

When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

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Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

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In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.

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And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

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Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

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