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Augustine Birrell
: Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson :
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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
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Alfred Whitney Griswold :
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.
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Augustine Birrell :
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
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D H Lawrence :
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
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Herman Melville :
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
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Mervyn Griffith-Jones :
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Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?
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John Milton :
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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Max Lerner :
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
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It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
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Words are women, deeds are men.
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Great is bookishness and the charm of books.
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
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Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
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There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;
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