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Ross Macdonald - The walls of books around him, dense...
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. (Ross Macdonald)

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Ross Macdonald

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