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- Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
- We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space,…
- One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself…
- To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,
- In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
- We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…
- We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
- ... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or…
- We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
- How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it?…
- I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
- We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…
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