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A Book Should Be An Axe To Chop Open The Frozen Sea Inside Us.
-J. M. Coetzee
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A Book Should Be An Axe To
J. M. Coetzee
A Book Should Be An Axe To Chop Open The Frozen Sea Inside Us.
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