Goodreads quote - want to know someone intimately? look at his library

this says much.  to know someone intimately, 
you must know how he thinks
to know how he thinks, you must know his mind
to know his mind, 
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For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind. 

Geraldine Brooks

Happy 59th birthday, Geraldine Brooks! The Australian-born novelist is best known for March, which imagines the wartime service of the March sisters' father in Little Women.