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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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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

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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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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt

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A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Author unknown

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare. – Kenko Yoshida

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How can a doctor judge a womans sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. – Nellie Bly

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