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The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector o

The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. – Joseph Stalin

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. – H. L. Mencken

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