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Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.
Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.
Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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- Orhan Pamuk
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- Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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