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“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

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Tome Topple Readathon — 2994 members — last activity Sep 10, 2023 03:39PM
The next round of the Tome Topple Readathon will take place from midnight in your time zone on February 7th to 11:59pm in your time zone on February 2 ...more

Perustopia Book Club — 16680 members — last activity Jun 26, 2025 12:33AM
Hello everybody! Regan and I are teaming up and decided to make a book club where we can all read awesome books together each month! We will also hav ...more

The Fave Rave Reading Challenge — 12 members — last activity Nov 30, 2017 04:54AM
The objective of this group is to read and discuss all-time favorite books. Go here for the reading list: https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/ ...more

Brandon Sanderson Community — 4880 members — last activity Nov 19, 2025 03:21AM
Your go-to community for people who love the works of Brandon Sanderson (Cosmere, Reckoners, Rithmatist, Legion, Skyward, etc.) The 17th Shard, the of ...more

BooktubeSFF Awards — 1693 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more

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