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“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Between the Acts
― Between the Acts
“That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.”
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The Iraq & Afghanistan Wars Reading Group
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— last activity Dec 26, 2021 10:47PM
Created in 2013: This group was originally created for those who had wanted to read about the Iraq War. Now it seems appropriate to include Afghanista ...more
Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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