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1. "The world invited me many places." ~ Leon Wieseltier
2. "There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people." ~ Leon Wieseltier
3. "But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one's own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows." ~ Leon Wieseltier
4. "What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far." ~ Leon Wieseltier
5. "Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid." ~ Leon Wieseltier
6. "Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money." ~ Leon Wieseltier
7. "I do not value religion chiefly for its morality." ~ Leon Wieseltier
8. "I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars." ~ Leon Wieseltier
9. "Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media." ~ Leon Wieseltier
10. "The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning." ~ Leon Wieseltier
11. "No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." ~ Leon Wieseltier
12. "I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?" ~ Leon Wieseltier

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