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“The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion and in ourselves. No-one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Some of our most wonderful memories are of beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.”
― Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
― Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
― Bram Stoker's Dracula
― Bram Stoker's Dracula
“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
50 books to read before you die
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These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more
Language Learners and Polyglots
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A place to share books read in foreign languages (for the purpose of culture and/or language study), books on learning languages, and books that inspi ...more
Jaja’s 2025 Year in Books
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