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Samuel Butler quote: "My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and..."

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own... Thomas Merton
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