Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment. … - Aldous Huxley

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There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Aldous Huxley

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment. . . . The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

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