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When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

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When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

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I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

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I would fain die a dry death.

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What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?

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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

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Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

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