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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
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