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“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet