Literature Quotes

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"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives before we die."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Literature mirrors the soul of civilization."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Literature is humanity's conversation with itself."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Literature shows us ourselves."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Literature allows us to inhabit other minds and worlds."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Literature opens doors to infinite worlds."
Mares, Edwin
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"Literature is a conversation across centuries."
Mares, Edwin
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"Literature explores what logic cannot capture."
Priest, Graham
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"Literature endures because it speaks to the unchanging aspects of human nature."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Literature is humanity's way of speaking to itself across time."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Literature is proof that the interior life is as vast as the physical world."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Literature holds the capacity to make us feel less alone."
Mares, Edwin
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"Literature is the conversation across time between souls."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Literature preserves the human spirit across ages."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The limits of language are the limits of our world."
Priest, Graham
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"Words limit thought, yet thought requires words."
Priest, Graham
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Literature is the mirror of society."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Literature mirrors humanity back to itself."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Literature is the record of human consciousness."
Mares, Edwin
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"Literature is the conversation between the dead and the living."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Fiction and reality blur more than we typically admit in our logical frameworks."
Priest, Graham
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"Literature is the conversation across the centuries."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Literature is the testimony of what it means to be human."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Literature preserves the human voice across the chasms of time."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Language can express more than classical logic allows."
Beall, Jc
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"Literature is humanity speaking to itself across time."
Mares, Edwin
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"Literature is the proof that we are not alone in what we feel."
Mares, Edwin
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Correia, Fabrice