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“The book is man's best invention so far.”
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“Todas as coisas são boas ou más por comparação. Uma análise suficiente mostrará que o prazer, em todos os casos, é apenas o contraste da dor. Prazer positivo é mera ideia. Para ser feliz, até certo ponto, devemos ter sofrido na mesma proporção. Jamais sofrer equivaleria a não ter jamais sido feliz. Mas está demonstrado que na vida inorgânica a dor não pode existir; daí a necessidade da dor para a vida orgânica. A dor da vida primitiva da Terra é a única base da felicidade da derradeira vida no Céu.”
― Contos de Terror, de Mistério e de Morte
― Contos de Terror, de Mistério e de Morte
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”
― Midnight Sun
― Midnight Sun
“For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Qui a tué mon père
― Qui a tué mon père
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Dead Poets Book Club
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