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By no means you should work too hard, and thereby ruin your health. Your health is more important than any book in the world.

— Milly Witkop Letters to Berkman and Emmy Eckstein (1935)

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Utopias are invented to be realized, and as long as there is no demand for an improvement of living conditions, changing things is impossible.

We should support woman both mentally and morally, pointing her the way to freedom, which she must naturally find for herself.

What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)

As long as the woman is not experiencing a renaissance, cannot be dreamed of a renaissance of humanity.

What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)

The State was never and never can be anything other than the political apparatus of force of the propertied classes to ensure the economic exploitation of the broad masses of the working people.

We have to take things as they come, since we are not the masters over our own fate.

Letters to Berkman and Emmy Eckstein (1935)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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