Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Madame Bovary is myself.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Death swallows death.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.