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The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know _ the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be_. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.
Thomas Wolfe Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
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The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know _ the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be_. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.
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Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

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