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“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
One Book Per Week: 2013
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Daily reading, whether a newspaper, essay, or novel, provides intellectual sustenance and strengthens our critical thinking, debate, and reasoning ski ...more
When I grow up I want to be a WRITER!
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When you were little did you want to be a novelist? Forget the whole idea of wanting to become a teacher, a doctor, an actress.....you could care less ...more
Amazon Kindle
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For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.
Short Story lovers
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For people who especially love short stories, and don't care who knows it! ...more
Dark Fiction
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Because we think that a great piece of dark fiction will blow your mind, we are a group for people who enjoy all forms of dark fiction. Lots of discus ...more
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