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they really are. To stretch further one's imagination, it is as if these elements are elevators that transport the "scholar anxious to escape the noise and turmoil of the vulgar press … a dream palace enshrining in its holy mysteries the power of the word."
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celebrations, the initial plan was expanded to add three more storeys to the original design. Construction of the library began in 1968 and completed in 1973, at a cost of over $ 40 million.
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