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Quote by Walter Benjamin
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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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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

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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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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But a book is never just a book. – The Old Sage Bookshop in Prescott, Arizona

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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