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From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, th...more

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‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our h...more

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We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the eng...more

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We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

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Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

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It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of themselves, breaking down ba...more

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Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss between w...more