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Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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