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When you read a great book, you don__ escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape _ into different countries, mores, speech patterns _ but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life__ subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.
Julian Barnes A Life with Books
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When you read a great book, you don__ escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape _ into different countries, mores, speech patterns _ but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life__ subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.
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A Life with Books

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