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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.

Source: Unpacking My Library, 1931.
-- Walter Benjamin, (Jul 15 1892-1940), German man of letters, aesthetician; He is now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century.

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