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"Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship."

— Ismail Kadare

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"If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?"

"It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed."

"And everything would be different, different."

"The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday."

"Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind."

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

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

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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