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Literature is calling you to put down your phone.

Literature is calling you to put down your phone; ignore the culture wars; block out the secondhand musings of newspaper philosophers. Turn to the great works of civilisation. See that your life is a quest for meaning.

See that your life is a quest for meaning. Become as ambitious as the poets whose work outlived empires. Rome, Greece, and Renaissance Italy have fallen, while Homer, Virgil, and Dante are declaimed.

Rome, Greece, and Renaissance Italy have fallen, while Homer, Virgil, and Dante are declaimed. These three quests are the foundation of the Western literature. All literature is quest; all life is quest; all quest is self-discovery, aspiration, virtue riding in the wilderness.

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