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Richard S is Currently Reading

Richard S is currently reading

Gothic Tales

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Jul 08, 2025 02:07AM

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Porius

by John Cowper Powys

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"This book is so incredibly good and ahead of its time. It’s really a must read for all. The detail and research and beauty and fascination are beyond anything." — Dec 05, 2024 01:09PM

Apr 12, 2022 05:04AM

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Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories

by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 03, 2024 09:50AM

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Richard S’s Quotes

“Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”
― John Cowper Powys

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“The existentialists' view of love is not romantic, because they do not believe in love as an abstract force or amorous sunset walks along the beach. However, Cox also said, "if your idea of romance is somewhat more gothic and stormy, full of heartache, yearning and the thwarted desire to possess breaking up, making up and breaking up again, tears before bedtime and tears in the rain, then maybe it is romantic".”
― Skye Cleary, Existentialism and Romantic Love

tags: existentialism, love, romance

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“I peered through an arched tracery of stone upon the shadowed moon and wondered if I had there a moon-maiden counterpart whose glaucous eyes were slumberous with death.”
― Frances Gregg, The Mystic Leeway (Women's Experience Series)

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