Virginia WoolfEvery face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
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What do we seek through millions of pages? Every book that crosses our path is there for a purpose. We are on a constant hunt for the answer to the question, and we will go and buy and read and read and read until we get it. The more we put our minds to it, the more we see of it, the more we understand what we need to know. This quote perfectly captures how we spend our time each day. We spend so much of our time looking for answers to questions, but books represent our search in such a way that it looks like we’re just hunting for different answers.
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