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Thousand Lives

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin

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2 Comments

  1. fabio

    reading distracts mind and transports you to a new dimension, immerging you in an unreal context where you never thought you could stay. I do not know if you live a thousand lives before dying, but reading distracts for sure your mind from contemporary problems.

  2. Francesco S.

    My goodness – how true!

    I didn’t know this Mr. George R. R. Martin, but that phrase somehow reminds me the fascination of the english-catholic writers of the XIX century.

    Then, the statement clearly shows how a readings-eater, who started reading very early and much, will gain in time that classic touch of fantasy that will enrich his life-living experience.

    Writers – and readers -, I’m telling because I’m trying to be both, undoubtly live thousand of lives in thousand of adventures.

    This is what make love their job – living it like being ‘on a mission’. Of course, in this other fundamental factors plays (faith perception, virtues, weaknesses and all the many accidental factors), but the ‘sense of immersion’ and the imperceptible desire ‘to get to the final page’, perhaps inherited by the hundreds – if not thousands – books read surely remains. Incorruptibly.