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I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. -- Robert Dessaix
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. -- Leland Ryken
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. -- Herbert Gold
In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education. -- David Christian
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect. -- Nicole Krauss
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. -- Alex Tabarrok
Literature is language charged with meaning -- Ezra Pound
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. -- Ezra Pound
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. -- Carol Bly

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