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“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“To be moved confuses the soul. One cannot convey these kinds of memories any more than the events of a dream...
...if I have complained too long, it is because my memory, no longer having any fixed abode, has to carry its luggage with it.”
― The Difficulty of Being
...if I have complained too long, it is because my memory, no longer having any fixed abode, has to carry its luggage with it.”
― The Difficulty of Being
“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“When I start reading I'm somewhere completely different, I'm in the text, it's amazing, I have to admit I've been dreaming, dreaming in a land of great beauty, I've been in the very heart of truth. Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home, walking the streets silently and in deep meditation, passing trams and cars and pedestrians in a cloud of books, the books I found that day and am carrying home in my briefcase.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.”
― Goodbye to Berlin
― Goodbye to Berlin
Petit book club in SG
— 14 members
— last activity Feb 12, 2019 07:24PM
Online version of our book club. Here are the key rules for our bookclub: 1. We will fix the dates for our group meetings 6-8 months in advance, after ...more
The Buried Masterpieces!
— 28 members
— last activity Dec 17, 2009 10:10AM
Dust of time settled a bit too heavily on a book that, in your opinion, is one of the greatest novels ever written, but that no one knows about becaus ...more
Loosed in Translation
— 532 members
— last activity Mar 06, 2026 05:09PM
Are you interested in world literature, and works in translation? Come here for recommendations, resources, links, advice on who the best translator o ...more
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
— 177331 members
— last activity 5 hours, 18 min ago
Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
Amnesty International BookClub
— 669 members
— last activity Sep 03, 2024 07:24AM
The Amnesty International Book Club combines awareness and action. Every month, a guest reader will recommend a book about the human experience they b ...more
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