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Shawna
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"Cool, now you just have to start adding books! "
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A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
"De rien. Some do just seem to graft to you; like you didn't know a part of yourself before you read it. I think I'm a little too easy of a judge mys...more"
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¡Oh la humanidad! Una qué tapicería de la pérdida y preservación, prevención y curación. Magnífico.
You know, the title pretty much says it all. And it's chronological, so you start way back when, in the days when "books" were cu... " Read more of this review » |
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"I've been dying to read this ever since "The Kite Runner." That and "The Book Thief" are my two favorites of the year so far. I'm glad for the remin...more"
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“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.”
― John Adams
― John Adams
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
― John Adams
― John Adams
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
― D.H. Lawrence
― D.H. Lawrence
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
― Anaïs Nin
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