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2012-09-24 04:21 3003740 Anonymous (43316277_640.jpg 640x476 16kB)
How can great works of literature improve you as a person?

1 min later 3003742 Anonymous
By giving you new ideas that you may not otherwise have had. I don't think I need to explain how new ideas can improve you as a person.

13 min later 3003767 Anonymous
Literature just shows you the world for what it truly is. It shows you perpetual beauty, it shows you the twisted face of evil. It makes you into a more intuitive and more self-aware person by putting the most abstract concepts into layman's terms.

16 min later 3003777 Anonymous
Makes you more empathetic.

22 min later 3003797 Anonymous
We need more GG threads on /lit/. Like back when DFW flooded the board.

24 min later 3003803 Anonymous
>>3003777 I actually am gonna go with this.

27 min later 3003807 Anonymous
It makes you more pretentious and condescending.

32 min later 3003824 Anonymous
>…for your true nature lies, not concealed deep within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above that which you usually take yourself to be. Your true educators and formative teachers reveal to you what the true basic material of your being is, something in itself ineducable and in any case difficult of access, bound and paralyzed: your educators can be only your liberators.

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