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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom a

Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his days work at Auschwitz in the morning. – George Steiner

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Morning
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. – George Steiner

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

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. – Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, "The Two Races of Men," 1822

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