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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
"There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things."
"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
"Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step."
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