Evil requires no reason. - Alberto Manguel

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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Evil, No Reason, Reason, Requires

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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

Rip, Book, White, Making, Rid, Attach

The starting point is a question.

Point, Question, Starting, Starting Point

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

Book, Perfect, Secret, Books, Pages

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

Book, Possessed, Tantalizing, Tempting, Titles, Trying

reading is at the beginning of the social contract

Beginning, Contract, Contracts, Reading, Social

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