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