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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or should I cease with that vain consumption--vain because it is endless--and begin to reread those books that had given me the intensest pleasure in my past. - Quote by Lydia Davis

I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or should I cease with that vain consumption–vain because it is endless–and begin to reread those books that had given me the intensest pleasure in my past.

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