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Quote by Joseph Brodsky
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not read

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

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Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
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Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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