Alison Machin

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François de La Rochefoucauld
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

Erica Jong
“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Erica Jong

T.S. Eliot
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Doris Lessing
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Doris Lessing

year in books
Daniell...
300 books | 14 friends

Yvonne ...
215 books | 29 friends

Ben Wil...
618 books | 50 friends

Vicki W...
156 books | 12 friends

Laura
55 books | 5 friends

Mark Ca...
115 books | 25 friends

Tess Hu...
111 books | 62 friends

Bethany...
69 books | 24 friends

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