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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
Alina Stefanescu's personal library of writing, essays, literary criticism.
The one thing I do try to follow is to go on streaks of reading a lot of books on a particular topic around the same time. Doing this is useful because it means I don’t have to just trust one author’s perspective on a particular topic, and it helps me connect a lot of facts together, so I can understand things better.
Dan Shipper • How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
