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"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you."
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970)
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Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature.
#Sartre believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices.
By the end of his life he was almost blind, but he kept working. Around 50,000 people reportedly came to his funeral procession in Paris.
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Reading a Storybook by James Tissot (1878-79)
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“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
Ray Bradbury
Louis Braille invented the tactile #reading and #writing system for #blind people when he was just 15 years old.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 — July 1, 1896) was a preacher’s daughter, a teacher, a wife, and a mother of seven.
In 1852, her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a sensation: about 10,000 copies were sold in the first week, and 300,000 before the end of the year.
Thirteen years later, #slavery was abolished in the US. One book did not end slavery by itself but #Stowe showed millions of readers the human pain behind it.
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The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s timeless masterpiece, has reached a historic milestone by becoming the world’s most translated book of fiction, with 600 translations to date!
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Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 – February 1945) for her thirteenth birthday received a diary. She began to write about her life, the people around her, short stories — even a novel.
She dreamed of becoming a writer.
War left us only her diary.
It stole the girl, the books she never wrote, and the life she should have had.
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To read or not to read, that’s not a real question.
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