I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
L’architecture est art de suggestion.
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of 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.
A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.