“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”
Mortimer J. Adler
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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