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"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."
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"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
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"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
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"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."
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"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
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