deadpoetsmusings:“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come ac
deadpoetsmusings:“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage perhaps only a phrase, which has meaning for me, and becomes part of me; I’ve got out of the book all that’s any use to me, and I can’t get anything more if I read it a dozen times. You see, it seems to me, one’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one; and at last the flower is there.” – W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage -- source link
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