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“Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“The Indian, in truth, no longer has a country. He is reduced to starvation or to warring to the death. The Indian´s first demand is that the white man shall not drive off his game and dispossesses him of his lands. How can we promise this unless we prohibit emigration and settlement...The end is sure and dreadful to contemplate.
General John Pope”
― Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
General John Pope”
― Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“We can choose to organise our cities and states in new ways that benefit everyone. The curse of civilisation can be lifted.”
― Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures
― Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures
“Our lives are not the legacy we leave behind, or the value of the work that we do. Our lives happen inbetween the deeds and ideas that define us. Each of us feels it, the mystery, the strangeness of life on earth. Of life and death. We feel it when we travel, we feel it when we stay at home. We feel it when a loved one dies or when a loved one is born.”
― It's Not Yet Dark
― It's Not Yet Dark
Reading the Classics
— 4048 members
— last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
The Milan Kundera Society
— 21 members
— last activity Jul 30, 2011 12:20PM
This group is intended to be a friendly gathering of readers who admire Milan Kundera. Let's talk about our favorite books, discuss his topics, share ...more
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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