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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince

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