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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory . . . so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The warehouse of that memory is called the library.

A man’s library is a sort of harem.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Jazz is the music of the body.

The Possible’s slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.

One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

An idea is a light turned on in a man’s soul.