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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.