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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only ma

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"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search"

- Max Lerner

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This quote is written / told by Max Lerner between December 20, 1902 and 1992. He/she was a famous Journalist from USA. The author also have 22 other quotes.

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