Diversion weakens thy mind.
Toba BetaStichwörter: mind diversion weaken
A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts himself in their place and, to an extent, lives their lives. Their view of life, their attitude to the great subjects of human speculation, whether stated in words or shown in action, call forth in him a reaction of surprise, of pleasure or of indignation. But he knows instinctively where his interest lies and he follows it as surely as a hound follows the scent of a fox. Sometimes, through the author's failure, he loses the scent. Then he flounders about till he finds it again. He skips.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: reading entertainment diversion skipping
The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.
Susan SontagStichwörter: reading books diversion
[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.
Susan SontagStichwörter: reading books entertainment amusement solace diversion fortification refreshment
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