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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“I am a machine condemned to devour books.”
― Karl Marx

“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life