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There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the...more

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The core – and perhaps unexpected – thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because we think of literature as sophisticated. But there ...more

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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

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We would like to go and see the field that Millet…shows us in his Springtime, we would like Claude Monet to take us to Giverny, on the banks of the Se...more

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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.