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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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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
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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway
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