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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco

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“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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