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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

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Beauty
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Joseph Brodsky
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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Change
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Books
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A dirty book is rarely dusty. – Author unknown

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Books

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

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Books

He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

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Books

A blessed companion is a book, — a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. – Douglas Jerrold

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Books

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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you cant deny is the penalty of marriage. – Queen Victoria

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I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health. – John Cameron

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