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“He said to me once: it is the mind that made the bombs that is killing the world. For that purpose the bombs are not needed.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“Basil Ransom had got up just as Mrs. Luna made this last declaration; for a young lady had glided into the room, who stopped short as it fell upon her ears. She stood there looking, consciously and rather seriously, at Mr. Ransom; a smile of exceeding faintness played about her lips--it was just perceptible enough to light up the native gravity of her face. It might have been likened to a thin ray of moonlight resting upon the wall of a prison.”
― The Bostonians
― The Bostonians
“Maybe it was not fear of death that motivated the people who were most alive, she thought, but some other force, say a capacity for delight.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
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For Bob Dylan fans interested in understanding and discussing the literary merits of his work.
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Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The read will take place February 2013-April 2013, but t ...more
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