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- He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of…
- He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the…
- What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,…
- We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's…
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