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— Ross Macdonald"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters."
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
— Gilbert Highet
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