CS L ewis

My own eyes are not enough for me. I will see through
those of others. Reality even seen through the eyes
of many is not enough. I will see what others have
invented. ...Literary experience heals the wound, without
undermining the privilege of individuality.... In
reading great literature I become a thousand men and
yet remain myself.... Here as in worship, in love and
in moral action, and in knowing I transcend myself
and am never more myself than when I do… [Without
this exposure to other views of the world through
literature, one may be] full of goodness and good sense
but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated.
The man who is contented to be only himself,
and therefore less a self, is in prison