“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
— W. H. Auden, book The Dyer's Hand
"Reading", p. 10
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
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