Vera Marsova

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Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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May 12, 2025 07:38AM

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath

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Feb 11, 2024 03:26AM

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Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

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"What is with the beautiful epigraphs in my life lately:

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
—Whitman" — Oct 27, 2023 12:28PM

Oct 27, 2023 12:26PM

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Vera’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Seven Plays in English Verse

The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

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For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.

See Vera Marsova’s 10 books with notes and highlights…

“When I was at Oxford, I tried to top myself, and I was comically bad at it. An utter clown. Then afterwards, whenever something felt nice, or even if it felt okay, I took the effort to pause. I thought: is this specific moment better than nothing? And it usually was. Once I started looking out for that sensation, I stopped wanting to die.’
‘Got you,’ Phoebe said. ‘Your cure for being suicidal is: don’t.’
‘You’re less likely to see something if you’re not looking for it, is all I mean.”
― Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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“He didn’t want to leave. It felt like young love, I thought—responsibilities looming, the mounting anxiety of your life building while you clung, lolling pointlessly in bed, to a new someone who gave you a sad and fearful pleasure.”
― Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

tags: escapism, young-love

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“They did not yet know what he did. That you could be gifted, hardworking, tenacious, even touched by a little bit of luck, and still not succeed, or if you did, not have it last. That
never to experience achievements commensurate to your talent, never to receive adequate payment for your efforts, was a terrible, demoralizing thing.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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“Two parts contentment, one part desire. It seemed a good formula for living, though one she had not mastered yet.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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“Still, that’s what I mean when I say I like Grellan. He can show me how to be a man without having this destroy-or-be-destroyed thing. And once you know how to do it, it doesn’t take much work. It’s intrinsically rewarding, so it runs itself: being nice. I look at Grellan and on some level I think, if I were to decide the meaning of life is happiness, and if I stopped trying to be better than people, and if I tried to love them instead – it would be an investment. I’d get to be Grellan by Grellan’s age.”
― Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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