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I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.
– Martha Gellhorn

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