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“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before.”
― Enter Ghost
― Enter Ghost
“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.”
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“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
“Your atom, I think it will never go back to peace, to cereal or rocks or anything like that. Once it has been seduced there is no way back, the way is always ahead, and it is so much harder after the passage from innocence. But it does not work to pretend to be innocent anymore. That seduced atom has energies that seduce people, and those rarely get lost.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
The Book Was Better
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Nothing But Reading Challenges
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We NEVER email authors or publishers offering to promote books in exchange for payment. This is a large GR scam happening across many grou ...more
Magic Realism
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
The Book Bound Society
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To books we are bound, and in turn they bind us together. Help us in our aim to make reading experiences more rewarding! >thebookboundsociety@gmail.co ...more
What is Life without Books
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I wanted to start a group where book lovers can come talk about any book. I wanted to get like minded people together for friendship and fun. We can h ...more
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