Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
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