I Have Never Experienced A Sorrow That

Time Spent Reading, Like Time Spent Loving, Increases Our Lifetime.

Each Country Thinks Its School Is In A Specific Crisis, Without Ever Linking The School's Crisis To That Of The Society Around It.

The Teacher Is Commodified, The School Is A Shop, The Subjects Are Consumer Goods. To Read, To Think, To Reflect, Isn't A Question Of Want, It's A Question Of Need.

We Human Beings Build Houses Because We're Alive But We Write Books Because We're Mortal. We Live In Groups Because We're Sociable But We Read Because We Know We're Alone. Reading Offers A Kind Of Companionship That Takes No One's Place But That No One Can Replace Either. It Offers No Definitive Explanation Of Our Destiny But Links Us Inextricably To Life. Its Tiny Secret Links Remind Us Of How Paradoxically Happy We Are To Be Alive While Illuminating How Tragically Absurd Life Is.

A Well-chosen Book Saves You From Everything, Including Yourself.