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“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.”
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“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
“Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?”
― The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
― The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“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
Classics-only book club
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— 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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