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"Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder."
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"Ingels: The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
— Cyril Connolly
Literature1903–1974
"He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library."
— Sydney Smith
Philosophy1927–2011
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