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It is books, poems and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge. Oscar Wilde referred to this phenomenon when he quipped that there was no ...more
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Anna Akhmatova
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Philip Roth
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
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Guy de Maupassant
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
Guy de Maupassant

Chang-rae Lee
“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

Christopher Hitchens
“My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right”
Christopher Hitchens

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