Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

Pseudonymous Bosch
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This quote is a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, it expresses the power of books to provoke emotions, particularly negative emotions. On the other, it also shows how books can make us do things we later regret. It's an interesting conundrum.

Source: The Name Of This Book Is Secret

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