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“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: unique

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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Hard SF — 1181 members — last activity Dec 30, 2025 01:03AM
This is a discussion group for this specific subgenre in SF where the plausibility of the science counts.

Gay Science Fiction — 1936 members — last activity Dec 17, 2025 09:49AM
Hi. I decided since it was so hard to find other gay themed science fiction books I'd make this group. Please post M/M only themed books, though M/M/F ...more

Existentialism — 925 members — last activity Jan 03, 2021 11:51AM
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more

The New Weird — 299 members — last activity Feb 08, 2022 04:57PM
I am not starting this group because I feel I know a lot about the New Weird. Quite the contrary. I'm starting the group because I don't know much, bu ...more

ISMs Press — 66 members — last activity Apr 09, 2010 01:25PM
Publisher of quarterly magazine 'Sein und Werden' - an art and literary journal that seeks to merge the horrors of Expressionism, the dream qualities ...more

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