It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt... (Ray Bradbury)

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

Ray Bradbury

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