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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
Bernard Berenson

Contemporary literature. Easier to shock than to convince.
Albert Camus

Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T.S. Eliot

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.
Goethe

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Joseph Joubert

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
George Orwell

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
Voltaire

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
Oscar Wilde

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Fischer

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