“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“And the wild regrets and the bloody seatsNone knew so well as IFor he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one, must die.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

“The idea that one will die is more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead, that, becoming once more a still, plane surface after having engulfed a person, a reality extends, without even a ripple at the point of disappearance from which that person is excluded, in which there no longer exists any will, any knowledge, and from which it is as difficult to reascend to the idea that that person has lived as, from the still recent memory of his life, it is to think that he is comparable with the insubstantial images, the memories, left us by the characters in a novel we have been reading.”