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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
VICTOBER 2025
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Greetings all! Victober is a month-long readathon hosted each October all about reading Victorian literature. The Goodreads group remains in place, ...more
The Mega Dickens Readalong
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— last activity Mar 27, 2023 08:13AM
Discorder server: https://discord.gg/zaeZ3HCPSf The Schedule: The Pickwick Papers, 1837: 302,190 words – October and November 2022 Oliver Twist, 18 ...more
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