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“I love, I love beauty
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led”
― Adonis: Selected Poems
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led”
― Adonis: Selected Poems
“On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure.”
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“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― 1984
― 1984
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
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