Andrei TarkovskyA book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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The more people that read a book, the more it can be interpreted and interpreted by different people. If a thousand different people read the same book, they will all have an idea of what they have read. However, when a thousand different people have an idea of what they have read, the book is no longer the same. Instead, it has changed in many ways for each individual reader.
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