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Quote by Abbas el-Akkad
لستُ أهوى القراءةَ لأكتبَ، ولا أهوى القراءةَ لأزدادَ عُمُرًا في تقديرِ الحسابِ، وإنما أهوى القراءةَ؛ لأنَّ عندي حياةً واحدةً في هذه الدنيا وحياةً واحدةً لا تكفيني.
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The speaker says reading is not mainly a tool for becoming a writer or for simply adding years to life. It is a way to experience more than one lifetime can contain. Books offer other lives, ideas, and experiences, making a single earthly life feel too limited for everything the speaker wants to know and live through.
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- Jordanian National Center for Curriculum Development, Arabic textbook
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