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"The Sick Chamber," The New Monthly Magazine (August 1830)
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Hazlitt reflects on reading as an intimate exchange, suggesting that books reveal the inner lives of their authors while also helping readers understand hidden parts of themselves. He treats literature as a mutual unveiling, where absorbing another mind's thoughts illuminates one's own private depths.
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