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“I feel separated and cut off from the world around me, but occasionally I've felt that it was really a part of me, and I hope I'll have that feeling again, and that next time it won't go away. That's a dim, misty outline of the story that's told so often, of how man once lived in a golden age or a garden of Eden or the Hesperides ... how that world was lost, and how we some day may be able to get it back again. ... This story of the loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“Whatever noblest things the mind received,
More and more foreign matter spoils the theme;
And when the good of this world is achieved,
What’s better seems an idle dream.
That gave us our life, the noblest urges
Are petrified in the earth’s vulgar surges”
― Faust
More and more foreign matter spoils the theme;
And when the good of this world is achieved,
What’s better seems an idle dream.
That gave us our life, the noblest urges
Are petrified in the earth’s vulgar surges”
― Faust
“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
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“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”
― ESV Reader's Bible
― ESV Reader's Bible
“If you cannot forgive your brother,
you cannot forgive your friend.
If you cannot forgive your friend,
you cannot forgive your neighbor.
If you cannot forgive your neighbor,
you cannot forgive your enemy.
If you cannot forgive your enemies,
you cannot be forgiven for your sins.
One who forgives his neighbor ten times will be rewarded ten times.
One who forgives his enemy ten times will be rewarded a hundred times.
One who forgives his neighbor infinitely will be rewarded immeasurably.
One who forgives his enemy infinitely will be elevated infinitely.”
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you cannot forgive your friend.
If you cannot forgive your friend,
you cannot forgive your neighbor.
If you cannot forgive your neighbor,
you cannot forgive your enemy.
If you cannot forgive your enemies,
you cannot be forgiven for your sins.
One who forgives his neighbor ten times will be rewarded ten times.
One who forgives his enemy ten times will be rewarded a hundred times.
One who forgives his neighbor infinitely will be rewarded immeasurably.
One who forgives his enemy infinitely will be elevated infinitely.”
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Reading the Classics
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This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
InterVarsity Press Books
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— last activity Oct 05, 2021 07:37AM
InterVarsity Press has been publishing excellent Christian books for more than 50 years. With topics spanning all areas of Christian interest, IVP pub ...more
Divine Comedy + Decameron
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— last activity Nov 07, 2020 01:07PM
This group is for those interested in reading either or both Dante's Divine Comedy or Boccaccio's Decameron in 2014. Each read will be non-concurrent ...more
Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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— last activity Mar 18, 2014 09:23PM
This small group is designed to help readers share questions, answers, views and reviews about "The Magic Mountain". ...more
The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Group
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— last activity Apr 09, 2026 07:56AM
We are dedicated to discussing books by one of the greatest Russian writers ever. But 2014 will be focused on conducting a joint reading of 'The Broth ...more
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