Reading club, a photo by kattebelletje on Flickr.
'It consoles me in my retreat; it relieves me of the weight of distressing idleness and, at any time, can rid me of boring company.
It blunts the stabs of pain whenever pain is not too overpowering and extreme.
To distract me from morose thoughts, I simply need to have recourse to books.'
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/10/montaigne-philosophy
