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A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

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Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac

Profession: Author
Nationality: French

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He was an echo chamber for all books, the physical incarnation of words, the book made human.

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Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.

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Forced to think you end up coming to a conclusion.Forced to come to a conclusion you make a decision.And once you made the decision you really acts.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

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I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

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