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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
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― 1984
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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The Obscure Reading Group
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July 2024 update: This group is going on hiatus due to low participation in recent discussions. Like a phoenix, however, it reserves the right to fly ...more
The Mookse and the Gripes
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Forum for spirited and convivial discussion of fiction from around the world, with particular though not exclusive focus on 20th and 21st century fict ...more
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