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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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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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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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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann

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Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. – Michel de Montaigne

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. – Orison Swett Marden

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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. – Peter Drucker

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I believe its time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. – Janelle Monae

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