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The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.

— Georges Duhamel Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

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Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

Books are the friends of solitude. They develop individuality and freedom. In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

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