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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

tags: sense-of-wonder

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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Romanovs — 190 members — last activity Mar 07, 2018 02:58PM
A group interested in the Romanov dynasty of Russia, specifically, but not limited to Tzar Nicholas II and his family who were murdered during the Rus ...more

Discovering Russian Literature — 3027 members — last activity Mar 02, 2026 04:52PM
Whether you are a newbie or an expert or simply love Russian literature... Welcome! This is a friendly group where you can share your thoughts an ...more

Russian Readers Club — 1228 members — last activity Aug 10, 2023 03:07AM
The place where both russian readers and lovers of russian literature can share their thoughts about russian literature as well as about foreign one, ...more

Russian Bookworms Society — 128 members — last activity Oct 25, 2024 05:00AM
This is a small group for Russian book-addicts, who met on Twitter, became friends and realized they share a passion for literature. And then they cre ...more

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