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Francesco Petrarca
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
Francesco Petrarch

Albert Camus
“If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation, a question of atheism, a question of the tower of Babel, which is constructed without God's help, not to reach to the heavens, but to bring the heavens down to earth.”
Albert Camus, The Rebel

Blaise Cendrars
“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
Blaise Cendrars

Amelia Gray
“Why does the rain make us feel so romantic and strange? Maybe it's the fact that we are unnatural spectators of it, from inside our homes, and it is a reminder that we have the power to live our whole lives like this, if we choose. It's not the smell of fertile ground kicked up by raindrops, or the slick leaves, or the way we must amplify our voices to be heard over this larger presence. It's the power of the rooftop that makes us want to fuck under it.”
Amelia Gray, AM/PM

Marguerite Yourcenar
“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in my better moments think so still, that it would be possible in this manner to participate in the existence of everyone; such sympathy would be one of the least revocable kinds of immortality.”
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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80277 The Kindred Spirits — 300 members — last activity Sep 23, 2025 07:28AM
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152644 2015: The Year of Reading Women — 675 members — last activity Apr 01, 2020 04:01AM
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