You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>