"The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do."

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I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

— Aldous Huxley