“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”— Romain Rolland, Journey Within (1947)Share
“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought.”— Romain RollandShare
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”— Romain RollandShare
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”— Dr. SeussShare
“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”— Simone WeilShare
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”— Bertrand RussellShare