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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
Explore more quotes by Walter Benjamin
"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."
"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
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