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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.”
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“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin

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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
Patti Smith

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