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“That’s what you are. Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.”
― His Dark Materials
― His Dark Materials
“You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.”
― His Dark Materials
― His Dark Materials
“Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?”
― Cancer Ward
― Cancer Ward
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
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“You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.”
― The Black Prism
― The Black Prism
Addicted to YA
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put bac ...more
Around the World in 80 Books
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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
The Short Story Club
— 555 members
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The purpose of this group is to read and discuss one short story a week. For the the first couple of years, we read from specific anthologies, but fro ...more
Fedor Dostoevskij's lovers
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— last activity May 04, 2021 01:52AM
A place to discuss all the works by Fëdor Dostoevskij
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