We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.Max Lerner
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