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“On that October day five years ago when I discovered old Walt’s Leaves of Grass, I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It’s dangerous to open a book.“

— Sylvain Tesson, Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a film fade-out, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world." Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore