Manika Arora
https://www.goodreads.com/maronika
“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“You only lose what you cling to.”
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“There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
All art is quite useless.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Classics-only book club
— 19 members
— last activity Feb 20, 2013 03:01PM
This is an in-person book club in the Columbus, OH area. It is for those who wish to read and discuss classic literature. We welcome individuals from ...more
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