Ralph Waldo EmersonSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Writers and poets have always been a big part of my life and I am glad to know that there are some who can make us free. Write a good book and we will read it and learn from it. It will be our own experience.
We will be the ones who take the knowledge from your book and try to apply it in our lives. And, through our experience, we are also free. An important thing to remember is that the main purpose of reading books is not to escape reality but to make us more aware of reality.
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