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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might
“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others.”
― Maxims and Reflections
― Maxims and Reflections
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Candide
― Candide
“If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”
― Manuscript Found in Accra
― Manuscript Found in Accra
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
― Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
The History Book Club
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Tech-history and future
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— last activity Jan 21, 2019 07:11PM
Books about tech and how we got here combined with future looking books about where we might be going
ATXSciRead--Austin's Science + Nature Book Club
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— last activity Jan 16, 2019 05:42PM
The Austin Texas Science Writers, known as ATXSciWri, invites lovers of science and nature writing to join the newest BookPeople book club, ATXSciRead ...more
Quake books I wish someone had recommend to me
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— last activity Apr 29, 2019 09:33PM
A "Quake book" is something I stole from Tyler Cowen. Basically, it's any book that after reading your life can no longer be the same. Something funda ...more
Effective Altruists
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— last activity Apr 22, 2026 02:40PM
Recommend books, see what other people are reading, start a discussion, what have you. N.B. This group is not actively moderated and doesn't have any ...more
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