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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
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"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"
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"Knowledge will help you to solve any problem."
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"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
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"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
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"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
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"Only by learning the truth-whatever that truth might be-could people be given the right kind of power."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Dream
"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
Friendship
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
Change
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
Life
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
Religion
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