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• Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that…
• To read without joy is stupid.
• In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and…
• A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a…
• In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first…
• In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…
• The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected…
• It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would…
• You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There…

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