To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
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