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Orlando
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"This is perhaps even more of a favourite, from all that it seems now, then The room of one´s own and that is saying something. To the extend of a deserved reaction - "Hold up her writing is this fire?!?"
Not that I hadn´t seen her incredible skills previously, that her flow and structure are comemorated in my brain as absolutely wonderful, but I just... dislike reading about annoying abusive husbands/men and so on."
Dec 27, 2025 02:04PM

 
Anna Karenina
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"Man, what a treat to get back into this after almost 2 years.
So glad this kind of "welcomed" me with a picture of a vital joyous older man who reminds me of my grandpa:) It´s probably for the better i ended in Levin´s part as that to me is the delightful one. While getting into the pov of Alexander Alexandrovič my brain went on bla bla bla whatever mode.
i love the nature and simple lives of everyday people here."
Jul 26, 2024 01:22PM

 
The Blade Itself
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Milan Kundera
“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
Milan Kundera

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“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
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J.M. Barrie
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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