Hisham MatarAnd I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.
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When someone has memorized a lot of information such as poetry or a novel, they carry that book inside their chest. They can read it and understand it even if they don’t have the paper version.
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