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“Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest,”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
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“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth. —Marcel Proust, Le temps retrouvé”
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Mythic Fiction
— 1205 members
— last activity Jan 23, 2026 07:46AM
A group for people to discuss and recommend works of mythic fiction. Mythic fiction is literature that contains elements from mythology, fairytales, l ...more
kalki krishnamurthy
— 60 members
— last activity Jan 16, 2025 08:19PM
The famous Tamil writer kalki and his works ponniyin selvan etc Kalki (Tamil: கல்கி) was the pen name of R. Krishnamurthy (Tamil: ரா. கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்த ...more
Hindu Mythology
— 339 members
— last activity May 22, 2023 04:25AM
Hindu mythology is a large body of traditional narratives related to Hinduism, notably as contained in Sanskrit literature, (such as the Sanskrit epic ...more
Epigram Books
— 34 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2020 07:07AM
Epigram Books is a Singapore-based independent publisher of well-designed and thought-provoking titles. The company currently publishes between 50 and ...more
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