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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
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The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersNobody Leaves by Ryszard KapuścińskiA Legacy of Spies by John le CarréThe 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
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