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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." — 10 hours, 33 min ago

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The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2)

by Don Winslow (Goodreads Author)

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"I’d read the first 50 pages before. I’m probably not as enthused as I was a few days ago." — Apr 15, 2026 03:35AM

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

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"The odes to walking especially at night are rather resonant." — Apr 05, 2026 06:32AM

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“I shall have spent my life in railway stations
Nearly departing
For catastrophes,
All for love
And my heart haloed with the madness of love.
Nothing is quite so beautiful as the trains I’ve missed …”
― Jules Laforgue, Last Verses

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“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: living, poetry, soul

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“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”
― Raymond Aron

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“I lived forever in a dream world. Though I made occasional pilgrimages to temples, I could never bring myself to pray sincerely for what most people want.”
― Lady Sarashina, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

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“The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.”
― Herman Melville, Mardi and a Voyage Thither

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