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Middlemarch
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"book 3 has been my favorite so far. dying of laughter during the library scene. and WOW that final chapter. what a wild ride this has been - can this book never end?" Feb 02, 2026 06:49AM

 
War and Peace
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"i normally never use this function but this tome is the biggest literary undertaking i've taken on in years. luckily for me, this book is so incredibly immersive and beautiful and alive" Nov 29, 2022 03:51AM

 
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Emily St. John Mandel
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Susan Sontag
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
Susan Sontag

George Eliot
“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”
George Eliot

Donna Tartt
“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Simone de Beauvoir
“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

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