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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“Live to the point of tears.”
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“The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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― Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et reception (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:12)
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― Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et reception (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:12)
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun
The History Book Club
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— last activity May 26, 2026 12:19PM
"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
— 6 members
— 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
— 8 members
— 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
— 2 members
— 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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