"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

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A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

— Orhan Pamuk