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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce…
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…
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The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in…
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To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol…
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Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it…
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Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows…
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Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we…
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and…
— Octave Mirbeau
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