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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Henry Miller
Book, Reading, Magic
Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.139, New Directions Publishing
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.