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The Aeneid

by Virgil

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Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Alec’s Quotes

“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
― Jacques Lacan

tags: lovers

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“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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“I pray for peace—for motionlessness—for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

tags: radical

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“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: cyclops, memoir, naked, sedaris

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The History Book Club — 26164 members — last activity May 20, 2026 03:21AM
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

Reading the Classics — 4042 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
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

Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6437 members — last activity 21 hours, 24 min ago
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism — 819 members — last activity May 16, 2026 09:51PM
Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more

Dostoyevsky's Lair: Russian Literature — 435 members — last activity Apr 01, 2023 02:23PM
This group explores Russian literature with an emphasis on 19th/20th century authors.

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