The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
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