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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
International Reads
— 592 members
— last activity Aug 31, 2019 08:44PM
This book club's focus is on reading as diversely as possible. We hope to read books we may not otherwise have read or even heard of! This book club ...more
SFF180 presents Space Opera September: Season 2: 2021
— 399 members
— last activity Sep 12, 2021 06:26AM
Space opera is loosely defined as stories that are set predominately (if not entirely) in outer space, in which spaceflight is a key narrative element ...more
Our Shared Shelf
— 223268 members
— last activity Dec 16, 2025 12:22AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Yaoi and BL Manga/Novels Book Club
— 547 members
— last activity Oct 08, 2025 02:23AM
Welcome to newly formed Yaoi and BL Book Club! We are an easy-going group with the sole purpose of reading yaoi and BL manga/novels together. This g ...more
The Lady Vaults
— 278 members
— last activity Sep 28, 2020 11:02AM
The Lady Vaults is our term for the works of women authors from before now science fiction and fantasy history. Often overlooked and brushed aside, we ...more
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