Umberto EcoWe live for books.
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We live for books. When we’re young we’re not really sure of what we want to do with our lives. We don’t know of our purpose, nor the perspective that we’ll be able to obtain by living our lives. But as time goes on and we start to understand it all, we start to think about what we want life to be like and how we want it to progress.
We start taking interest in more and more things and we begin to realize that there is so much left for us to learn and discover about the world. And, as we live on and find new things, we find it all exciting because there is always something new out there to discover.
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