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“There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?”
― Raoul Vaneigem