“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.”
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