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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success

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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

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“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.”
― Kōbō Abe, Kangaroo Notebook

tags: animals

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“A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.”
― Kōbō Abe, Kangaroo Notebook

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Surrealism — 69 members — last activity May 27, 2022 09:31PM
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more

Ursula K. LeGuin — 178 members — last activity May 07, 2024 03:24AM
Specifically for readers who love LeGuin's expansive book selection or who want very, very badly to read them. ...more

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