Books prompt us to live inside the head of fictional characters. As we look at events and plots from the perspective of these characters, we forsake our own conscience and inhabit theirs instead. This teaches us to be sensitive to their joys and sorrows, and to place ourselves in their shoes in an attempt to live their experience. Books teach us to feel what we wouldn’t feel otherwise, but what others feel due to their situations, and therein lies the triumph of humanity.
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