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Erasistratus and Herophilus, who lived around 300 BCE, are known today as the fathers of modern dissection.
“The transfer of an idea? And, of course, a story is not a single idea; it is thousands of ideas, all working together in concert.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“It seemed like a concrete tree with branches of polished corridors in every direction.”
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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the time to think of places that welcome everyone and don’t charge any money for that warm embrace.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
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