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The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
– Harold Bloom

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  16. Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. – Karl Ove Knausgrd
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  28. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – Harold Bloom
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