A Book Is A Magic Portal To Another Dimension

A book is a magic portal to another dimension.

The question of what books do and what they are for is, of course, and abiding one. For Kafka, books were “the axe for the frozen sea within us”; for Carl Sagan, “proof that humans are capable of working magic”; for James Baldwin, a way to change our destiny; for Neil Gaiman, the vehicle for the deepest human truths; for Polish Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska, our ultimate frontier of freedom. Falling closest to Galileo, who saw reading as a way of having superhuman powers, it goes without saying that reading is indeed a magical affair.

What lends reading its ultimate magic, is that this vast body of the written word is at once immensely varied and reducible to the simplest, most universal human truths. We give ourself the greatest possible gift when we share the magic of books when we introduce ourself to the world of imagination when we learn through stories that anything is possible. Also, good books inspire wonder which is an essential element to help us live life in a better manner.

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