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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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There are books from which one inhales an exquisite air. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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

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

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot

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