Kevin

“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; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”
― Harold Bloom

“Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages”
― Elias Canetti

“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce