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“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

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“But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.”
― Michel Foucault

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“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

tags: supernatural-wicked

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NeoGAF — 459 members — last activity Sep 19, 2017 10:03AM
Group for users from the NeoGAF forums

Challenge: 50 Books — 4302 members — last activity 5 hours, 13 min ago
This group is for people who want to be challenged to read 50 books in one year. Start the challenge by creating a post with the title of your chall ...more

Beyond Reality — 2039 members — last activity 5 hours, 37 min ago
Welcome to the Beyond Reality SF&F discussion group on GoodReads. In Beyond Reality, each of our members may nominate one SF and one fantasy book per ...more

The History Book Club — 26341 members — last activity Jul 27, 2026 09:58AM
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

Classics and the Western Canon — 4972 members — last activity 4 hours, 5 min ago
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

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