Quote by Anatole France
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up wha

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

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The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. – Samual McChord Crothers

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Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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