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If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the m...more

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It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some...more

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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.