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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)

“But Your law, O God, permits the free flow of curiosity to be stemmed by force. From the schoolmaster’s cane to the ordeals of martyrdom, Your law prescribes bitter medicine to retrieve us from the noxious pleasures which cause us to desert You.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy