1. “My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this.â€Â
2. “. . . for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I’d never even thought that thought before.â€Â
3.“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house…Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die….â€Â
4.“There was a silly d**n bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every frew hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes…it looks like we’re doing the same…â€Â
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