Sign in with Facebook
“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Platform
― Platform
“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Liquid Modernity
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Liquid Modernity
“We study better in hostile surroundings than in hospitable ones, a student is always well advised to choose a hostile place of study rather than a hospitable one, for the hospitable place will rob him of the better part of his concentration for his studies, the hostile place on the other hand will allow him total concentration, since he must concentrate on his studies to avoid despairing,”
― The Loser
― The Loser
“We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.”
― Extinction
― Extinction
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
— 15773 members
— last activity 2 hours, 15 min ago
The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
Norsk fabelprosa
— 150 members
— last activity Dec 21, 2025 04:08PM
Velkommen til Norsk fabelprosa! Dette er gruppen for deg som har en stor interesse for norsk fabelprosa! Ifølge ordboken er fabelprosa en samlebeteg ...more
Han’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Han’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,245 books
|
427 friends
9,256 books
|
2,903 friends
1,543 books
|
377 friends
1,287 books
|
182 friends
608 books
|
85 friends
1,225 books
|
568 friends
1,169 books
|
71 friends
621 books
|
17 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Han
Lists liked by Han
