Elena Sala

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read‎ (975)
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literary-history‎ (16)
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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

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5180 likes

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

tags: war

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“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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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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