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People may live most truly while reading Plato and Shakespeare
Drawn from what Allan Bloom said
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- Allan Bloom Philosopher and classicist (1930 to 1992) whose…
Men may live more truly and fully in reading Plato and Shakespeare than at any other time, because then they are participating in essential being and are forgetting their accidental lives.
Where this was said
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org
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