„He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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„To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed — it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„A man is known by the books he reads.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson