Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them. (Gustave Flaubert)

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Gustave Flaubert

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