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“There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who otherwise couldn't afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives. And you know, they need other people to recognize it in them too.”

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“– Como Nakata no sabe leer, es la primera vez que entra en una biblioteca—explicó Nakata. –Pues yo, aunque sepa leer, también es la primera vez que entro. Y no es que me enorgullezca de ello—dijo el joven Hoshino. —A mí me parece un lugar muy entretenido. —¿Ah, sí? Pues me alegro. —En el distrito de Nakano también hay una biblioteca. A partir de ahora iré de vez en cuando. Lo principal es que no hay que pagar entrada. Nakata no sabía que también podían entrar las personas que no supieran leer ni escribir.”

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Book:Kafka on the Shore
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“Hasta el anochecer, decido matar el tiempo en una biblioteca. Había averiguado de antemano qué bibliotecas había en los alrededores de Takamatsu. Desde pequeño, yo siempre he matado las horas en las salas de lectura de las bibliotecas. No son muchos los sitios adonde puede ir un niño pequeño que no quiera volver a su casa. No le está permitido entrar en las cafeterías, tampoco en los cines. Únicamente le quedan las bibliotecas. No hay que pagar entrada y, aunque vaya solo, no le dicen nada.”

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