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The courage to trust reason requires risking isolation or aloneness, and this threat is to many even harder to bear than the threat to life. Yet the pursuit of the truth by necessity exposes the searcher to this very danger of isolation.
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“So many books, so little time.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
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Classics and the Western Canon
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— last activity Jul 15, 2026 04:06PM
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
CORMAC MCCARTHY THE MASTER OF WORDS
— 205 members
— last activity Jun 19, 2023 04:35AM
A group dedicated to the enjoyment of great writing, not to analysis, not to eloquence, but to the joy of reading words well put on paper
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