"The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know â€” the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to beâ€¦. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever."

Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

Thomas Wolfe

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