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Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas The importance of books

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Books – in their myriad varieties, with all their different shades of meaning – are, without doubt, the finest testament to human thought our society can produce. Books, above all else, explore what it is to live in our world. Be it the most esoteric philosophical treatise or a cheap, high-octane thriller, each book offers its own meaning of life; its own narrative; its own way of understanding the world. Books have been the prime catalyst for thought throughout the centuries, even whilst documenting the development of that thought; without them society as we know it would not ...

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