Emmanuelle Louise Dyer-Melhado

“What Proust is describing is an act of self-discovery on the part of his reader. Immersing herself in Proust, the reader may encounter aspects of herself that, while they have perhaps been in existence for a long time, have remained unnamed, undescribed, and therefore in a certain sense unknown. One might say that the reader learns the language of herself”
― Mark Edmundson, Why Read?

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman