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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.”
― Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner