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Umberto Eco
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands ✨ Umberto Eco (2011). The Prague Cemetery, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands ✨ Umberto Eco (2011). The Prague Cemetery, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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