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Anthony’s Quotes

“I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination”
― Léon Bloy, Disagreeable Tales

tags: literature-quotes

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“Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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“The storied self knows that self is not enough.”
― Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-modern

tags: individualism, narrativity

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“The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.”
― Simone Weil

tags: apprenticeship, joy, learning

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“L'amour charnel est une recherche de l'Incarnation. On veut aimer dans un être humain la beauté du monde, non pas la beauté du monde en général, mais cette beauté spécifique que le monde offre à chacun et qui correspond exactement à l'état de son corps et de son âme.”
― Simone Weil, LA CONNAISSANCE SURNATURELLE

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Philosophy — 5954 members — last activity Aug 09, 2026 08:32PM
What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

What's the Name of That Book??? — 121864 members — last activity 9 minutes ago
Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more

Art, Theory and Literature of the Grotesque — 103 members — last activity May 05, 2009 04:30PM
A group to discuss, discover, and perhaps even re-introduce this potent way of looking at the world. Subject to include but not limited to: The His ...more

The Bibliotherapists' Book Club — 2 members — last activity May 30, 2019 08:02PM
A compilation of reading material to add to one's ever expanding reading list, aimed at enriching the understanding and practice of psychiatry. ...more