Quote by Walter Pater
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgariti

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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A book is to me like a hat or coat — a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. – Charles B. Fairbanks

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