"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."

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"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

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