“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.”
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Susan Sontag, a letter to Borges (in Where the Stress Falls)
via Maria Popova
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/121503984552