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.
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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.
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
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