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The smooth river with its eddies and ripples along which we then sailed, seems inconceivably remote from the cataract down which we have been hurled and the rapids in whose turbulence we are now struggling.
“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.”
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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
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“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
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“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.”
― How to Read and Why
― How to Read and Why
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