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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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Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of fa...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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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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