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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

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The above quote is an extract from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

It is a dystopian novel written for the first time in 1953 by American writer Ray Bradbury.

Also considered one of his finest works, the novel depicts a hypothetical American society in which books are banned and "firemen" burn whatever is found. The tagline of the book explains the title: "Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns ..." Guy Montag, the main protagonist, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his position of censoring and destroying literature.