Manika Arora
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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
“You only lose what you cling to.”
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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“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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