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“We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.”
― Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit