To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our...
Ben Myers@_BenMyers_
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Jun 16, 2024
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. -Virginia Woolf
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... nothing can be more fatal than to be guided by the preferences of others in a matter so personal. -Virginia Woolf
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Even if our judgments are wrong, still our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant; we learn through feeling; we cannot suppress our own idiosyncrasy without impoverishing it. But as time goes on perhaps we can train our taste. -Woolf
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A lovely passage from Virginia Woolf on how reading is its own reward
