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![“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them… I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a1a/c-s-lewis-2-132_blades_i-am-a-product-of-endless-books-my-fathe_3063197.jpg)
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