Reading (n.) is an act whereby the same text possesses inverse value for a sick, common, inferior soul and a healthy powerful soul. The virtues of the common man would perhaps mean vice and weakness in a philosopher.
Reading (n.) is nothing but viscous to read a book early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength.
Reading (n.) for everyone ruins, in the long run, not only writing but thinking too: one more century of readers and the spirit itself will stink.
Reading (n.) a book at daybreak, in the dawn of one's strength, is simply depraved.
Reading (n.) as an art demands that one be almost a cow and in any case not a modern man, because it is rumination.