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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reas...more

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The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familia...more