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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” - David Mitchell
“We read to know we are not alone.” - C.S. Lewis
“Read great paragraphs until their rhythms get stuck in your head.” - Lily Rothman
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.” - Franz Kafka
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12/31/2017
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