Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
– Jos Saramago
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- how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist – Jos Saramago
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- … that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost … – Jos Saramago
- Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. – Jos Saramago
- but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one. – Jos Saramago
- ..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. – Jos Saramago
- The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein. – Jos Saramago
- The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent. – Jos Saramago
- Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning. – Jos Saramago
- The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do. – Jos Saramago
- what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves – Jos Saramago
- Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. – Jos Saramago
- There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. – Jos Saramago
- We’ve all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we’ll be sure to have some tomorrow. – Jos Saramago
- There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs – Jos Saramago
- One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. – Jos Saramago
- …the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. – Jos Saramago
- Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. – Jos Saramago
- If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? – Jos Saramago
- doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time, – Jos Saramago
- Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men. – Jos Saramago
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. – Oscar Wilde
- You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. – John Lothrop Motley
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. – CS Lewis
- What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading. – Rikki Ducornet
- No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50. – Gladys M Hunt
- Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian Bauman
- You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. – Paul Rand
- Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant. – Ali Smith
- Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end… – Kate DiCamillo
- There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of. – Louis Althusser
- If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not. – Rebecca Solnit
- a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
- Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience. – Suzy Davies
- When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- To start speaking my language start reading what I read… start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. – Deyth Banger
- Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading. – Eraldo Banovac
- We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate. – Teri S Lesesne