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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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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – 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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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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He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

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Through all of my youth these books were my companions, and now, as I write these lines, after sixty years, they still look down upon me with their old friendliness. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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