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Paulo Coelho
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Jack London
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.”
Jack London, The Call of the Wild

Virginia Woolf
“Submit to me."

So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Donna Tartt
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History

The earth has its music for those who will listen
“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

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25x33 Lemuria Books Signings — 37 members — last activity Dec 27, 2016 12:38PM
This group is for updating it's members about book signings at Lemuria Books in Jackson, MS. We also post what signed books we have in the store. All ...more
12566 Open Mind, Open Heart — 261 members — last activity Aug 16, 2025 02:17PM
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213430 Read Zone — 274 members — last activity Dec 12, 2025 12:43PM
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