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C.S. Lewis:
"We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves...Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an...
C.S. Lewis:
"We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves...Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an...
unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison...
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality...in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here...
as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."
