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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which e

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. – Hugo Ball

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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms. – Hugo Ball

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Ethics
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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? – Hugo Ball

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Symbols
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Libraries
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Libraries and books are a big part of my life. Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries…. There were no parents there, no one I knew, and the solitude was a great relief. – Henry Rollins, “Empowerment Through Libraries,” November 2013, LAWeekly [Swoon!

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Libraries

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. – Henry Rollins

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Libraries

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Libraries

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. – Germaine Greer

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Libraries

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didnt feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. – Tom Hanks

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