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The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

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Brain is mush. An exceptional reread is the way forward.

Thomas Mann understood what it was like to live through the collapse of old certainties.

He witnessed two world wars, the rise of fascism, exile, and the destruction of the Germany he had known. His great novel is less about illness than about waiting while history gathers force beyond the horizon.

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Reading literature for six months will improve your writing more than six years of writing workshops.