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Honoré de Balzac
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
Honoré de Balzac

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Henry James
“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
Henry James

Vladimir Lenin
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
Vladimir Lenin

Kelli Russell Agodon
“Know there's beauty in the words you leave out”
Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum

75460 The Year of Reading Proust — 1635 members — last activity Mar 29, 2025 09:41AM
2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
65702 The Classics Club — 241 members — last activity Jul 02, 2023 12:46PM
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