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Books Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
- I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.
- To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by…
- Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but…
- How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
- Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
- You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not…
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