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Louisa van der Luyden

Louisa van der Luyden

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Dear friend, Proust told André Gide, I believe, contrary to the fashion among our contemporaries, that one can have a very lofty idea of literature, and at the same time have a good-natured laugh at it.

I always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

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