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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ambiguity, virtue

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The Actually Pretty Doable Summer Reading Challenge — 21 members — last activity Jun 12, 2015 07:21AM
The Actually Pretty Doable Summer Reading Challenge is just tough enough to be interesting without being boring. Basically, we'll each agree to read 1 ...more

The John Green Good Reads Community Book Club — 411 members — last activity Jan 25, 2018 09:45PM
There are many readers who like John Green-type of books in the world who would like to talk about anything, be it books or social. This is for the Wo ...more

Banned Books — 5202 members — last activity May 23, 2026 04:15PM
To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.

GREAT WE'RE ALL BLOODY INSPIRED — 439 members — last activity May 18, 2026 12:23PM
Welcome to the glade... We love The Maze Runner and everything about it. That's basically the one thing you need to know. We discuss characters, story ...more