In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
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I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
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