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On Books

Michel de Montaigne, writing after the death of a close friend, said that the best therapy was the companionship of books.

Plato too said that reading and the arts could bring the soul circuit back into balance after a severe dislocation.

And George Eliot, who used readings of Dante to get over the death of her husband, said that: ‘"Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot."

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