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The books we accumulate but will never read are 'less a burden than a form of wealth'
'Letters from America' (5/6). Writer and journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams sees beauty in accumulating thousands of books in his library, knowing that a single lifetime would never be enough to read them all – a beauty found in an unexplored world.
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Tous ces livres qu’on accumule et qu’on ne lira jamais : « J’ai fini par comprendre que c’est moins un fardeau qu’une forme de richesse »
« Lettres d’Amérique » (5/6). L’écrivain et journaliste Thomas Chatterton Williams voit, dans le fait d’amasser dans sa bibliothèque des milliers d’ouvrages, dont une vie entière…
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The books we accumulate but will never read are 'less a burden than a form of wealth'
'Letters from America' (5/6). Writer and journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams sees beauty in accumulating thousands of books in his library, knowing that a single lifetime would…