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Olive’s favorite books

The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne Collected Poems and Other Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé La Cantatrice chauve / La Leçon by Eugène Ionesco The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau Les fleurs bleues by Raymond Queneau The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier Le Joueur d'échecs by Stefan Zweig Fires on the Plain by Shōhei Ōoka Métaphysique des tubes by Amélie Nothomb Kamouraska by Anne Hébert
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
tags: books, library
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Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
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Woody Allen
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
tags: death, fear, humor, life
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Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
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