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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“In any case, the life of a drunk is presumably livelier than that of the ordinary well-behaved citizen. And then—I read that once somewhere—the life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming a mystic.
People like St. Augustine are always the ones that become visionaries.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Existential Book Club — 1474 members — last activity Dec 21, 2025 02:39PM
This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more

Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6205 members — last activity 6 hours, 33 min ago
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

Philosophy — 5770 members — last activity Dec 26, 2025 10:46AM
What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

Graham Greene — 184 members — last activity Jan 04, 2026 02:38AM
A group dedicated to the extraordinary life and work of Graham Greene.

PewDiePie's Literature Club — 2247 members — last activity Nov 05, 2025 08:12AM
A group where we read and discuss the books recommended by Felix Most recent book review video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfQAnBol6Jw Felix' ...more

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