"Books, books – they’re the only thing – the only solace. They alone give us immortality – the only immortality there is, at any rate."
This is a line that the character of Napoleon Bonaparte says in “Napoleon’s Return from St. Helena – An Historical Fantasy”, written by Charles Chaplin in collaboration with John Strachey (Chaplin’s unmade film about the life of Napoleon), ECCI00004676, ch00061015