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"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."
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"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
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"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
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"Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."
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"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
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