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“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
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“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
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“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”
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“Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.”
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“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Classical music lovers
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Our fast-growing classical music group is sometimes erudite - and maybe a little eccentric - but we aim never to be exclusive. Classical music is a g ...more
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This is a book group for GoodReads users in the UK, but members from other countries are welcome too so long as all posts are made in English. The g ...more
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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