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Library Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to…
- Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living…
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my…
- Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated…
- I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
- Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast…
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