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How Literature Saved My Life (2004)
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A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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