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Walter Benjamin quotes about reading

Deutsch Critic, Philosopher July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940

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Walter Benjamin quote: "what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his..."
what draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about Walter Benjamin
And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day? Walter Benjamin
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books. Walter Benjamin
The book borrowe? proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasure? as by his failure to read these books. Walter Benjamin
A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of a novel, however, is isolated, more so than any other reader(For even the reader of a poem is ready to utter the words, for the benet of the listener.) In this solitude of his, the reader ofa novel seizes upon his material more jealously than anyone else. He is ready to make it completely his own, to devour it, as it were. Indeed, he destroys, he swallows up the... Walter Benjamin

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