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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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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marxs Capital. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Titles of Books.—Decoys to catch purchasers. – Paul Chatfield

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