"They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them."

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It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

— Pam Brown