I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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