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“Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
“And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.”
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“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”
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“The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”
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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 History Book Club
— 26145 members
— last activity 4 hours, 56 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
The Aspiring Polymath's Society
— 613 members
— last activity Sep 04, 2021 11:15PM
For readers who love to learn for learning's sake, this group features regular group reads of nonfiction from a variety of fields, or fictional reads ...more
Classics and the Western Canon
— 4959 members
— last activity 10 hours, 58 min ago
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
Reading the Classics
— 4043 members
— last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
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