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Elena’s Quotes

“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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“For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.”
― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

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Ovid's Metamorphoses and Further Metamorphoses — 93 members — last activity Feb 08, 2020 02:44PM
To read the Metamorphoses of Ovid, in any of the many translations (or the original), and at whatever speed it takes, with three goals in mind: 1. To ...more

The Thomas Mann Group — 255 members — last activity Jan 17, 2026 05:34AM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read the works of Thomas Mann. Our next scheduled read is The Magic Mountain, taking plac ...more

Stefan Zweig Group — 90 members — last activity Jan 15, 2018 11:37PM
A Group on the books of Stefan Zweig, starting with his Memoirs, The World from Yesterday.

Doktor Faustus — 16 members — last activity Apr 19, 2015 04:46PM
This is a joint read of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, to follow a recent read of both Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. ...more

Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson — 209 members — last activity Aug 15, 2025 01:06PM
In this group, we will read and discuss Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Odyssey, published in November 2017 by Norton. We also welcome d ...more

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