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Oliver Sacks on Libraries

Oliver Sacks on Libraries

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In praise of intellectual freedom, community, and the ecstasy of serendipitous discovery. “Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote as she celebrated the sacredness of public libraries. “A library is a rainbow in the clouds,” Maya Angelou exulted …

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