The Revelation of Reading
James Baldwin
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,
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but then you read.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most
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were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive,
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who had ever been alive.
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In books we never find anything but ourselves.
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Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure,
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and we say the author is a genius.
The Revelation of Reading
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