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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.”
― The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
― The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me”
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“We know ourselves only as far as we’ve been tested.”
― Map: Collected and Last Poems
― Map: Collected and Last Poems
“And as we stray further from love
we multiply the words,
words and sentences so long and orderly.
Had we remained together
we could have become a silence.”
― The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
we multiply the words,
words and sentences so long and orderly.
Had we remained together
we could have become a silence.”
― The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Maybell’s 2025 Year in Books
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