“One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.”
-- Harold Bloom
“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.”
-- Harold Bloom
“It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.”
-- Harold Bloom
“It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.”
-- Harold Bloom
"It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential."
-- Harold Bloom
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