Quotes About Absorption

It was as if they were trying to eat into one another's bodies, absorb the part of them that would be forever outside.

If you control your reading too much, you cease to be involved in it.

I just soak things up and learn as time goes on.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.

I find solace in immersing myself in my work.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Mommy. Do you ever wish a book will never end?

Love and being in love are not the same. A woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.

Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.

your soul is dust to me. I will swallow you whole.

I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.

All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us- all who knew her- felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. [...] And she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you

When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in clothes or furniture when you buy and pay for them. But the act of purchase is actually only the prelude to possession in the case of a book. Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it—which comes to the same thing—is by writing in it.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.

If you read for understanding, reading for information will usually take care of itself.

Analytical reading is thorough reading, complete reading, or good reading—the best reading you can do.

Every book, no matter how difficult, contains interstitial material that can be and should be read quickly; and every good book also contains matter that is difficult and should be read very slowly.

We must in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

Note here the close relation between reading and listening. If we ignore the minor difference between these two ways of receiving communication, we can say that reading and listening are the same art - the art of being taught.