Elena Sala

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Elena is Currently Reading

Elena Sala is currently reading

Death in Rome

by Wolfgang Koeppen

bookshelves: currently-reading, german-literature, 100-german-must-read, historical-fiction

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Apr 17, 2026 05:21PM

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Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology

by June K. Singer

bookshelves: currently-reading, psychology, non-fiction

Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 1999

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— Apr 21, 2026 04:14PM

Apr 14, 2026 02:53PM

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My Struggle: Book Four

by Karl Ove Knausgård

bookshelves: currently-reading, knausgaard, scandinavian, memoir, archipelago-books

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— Apr 19, 2026 07:16PM

Apr 11, 2026 05:41PM

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Elena’s Quotes

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: war

1254 likes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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“Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

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