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From Passing Over: How Reading Lets Us Live a Thousand Lives by Charles Chu

…, but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. My own eyes are not enough for me. …in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad of eyes, but it is still I who see. Here…

From Passing Over: How Reading Lets Us Live a Thousand Lives by Charles Chu

We leave the borders of the self, and enter, for a few magical moments, into the minds of others, human, animal or otherwise. We do not just read about Dorothy’s trip to see the Wizard — we become Dorothy, red heels and all.

From Passing Over: How Reading Lets Us Live a Thousand Lives by Charles Chu

But who I am today is not just the sum of moments in “real life.” Who I am is just as much about the books I read in those lazy, schoolyard afternoons and those wonderful stories, shards of living culture, gifted to me by parents, teachers and friends.

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