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Carmen von Rohr
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
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“. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. ”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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Blamer Book Club
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The Blamer Book Club has been created by followers of Twisty Faster's blog, I Blame the Patriarchy, in order to discuss all types of books through the ...more
United States of Books
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— last activity Jan 04, 2015 08:11AM
Reading the 50 books mentioned in the "Literary United States". http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/15/the-literary-united-states-a-map-of-the-best-book-for ...more
Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
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