![I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-am-a-product-of-endless-books-my-father-bought-all-the-books-he-read-and.jpg)
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