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Acquisitiveness even affects the way we read books.
We read to acquire cultural property and we hurry from volume to volume in order to expand our estate. We forget that reading is pleasurable. When we treat knowledge like a possession it loses something of its richness. Accumulating knowledge becomes mechanical, the transfer of information from the page to the brain. Being knowledgeable is more than having knowledge
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We read to acquire cultural property and we hurry from volume to volume in order to expand our estate. We forget that reading is pleasurable. When we treat knowledge like a possession it loses something of its richness. Accumulating knowledge becomes mechanical, the transfer of information from the page to the brain. Being knowledgeable is more than having knowledge
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