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"Marguerite Duras was the only one to speak of the children of the plain [in Vietnam] who the moment they were born were condemned to die of hunger, cholera or dysentery. ‘The children simply went back to the land like wild mountain mangoes, like the little monkeys from the mouth of the lagoon.’”" — Aug 11, 2024 03:30AM
"Marguerite Duras was the only one to speak of the children of the plain [in Vietnam] who the moment they were born were condemned to die of hunger, cholera or dysentery. ‘The children simply went back to the land like wild mountain mangoes, like the little monkeys from the mouth of the lagoon.’”" — Aug 11, 2024 03:30AM
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"Obliged (by Metternich) to take an annual oath that they were not members of secret societies,the bureaucrats joined the next best thing, which were the reading clubs,where foreign newspapers and banned books circulated with police approval.The members of the Legal and Political Reading Union could read Rousseau,the works of the early Swiss communists & even Il Progresso,the mouthpiece of revolutionary Young Italy." — Jun 24, 2024 08:50AM
"Obliged (by Metternich) to take an annual oath that they were not members of secret societies,the bureaucrats joined the next best thing, which were the reading clubs,where foreign newspapers and banned books circulated with police approval.The members of the Legal and Political Reading Union could read Rousseau,the works of the early Swiss communists & even Il Progresso,the mouthpiece of revolutionary Young Italy." — Jun 24, 2024 08:50AM
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
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― Les Essais
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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Michel de Montaigne's Essays
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A small group to read Tessa Hadley's latest novel - Free Love. Start date - tentative - January 2024 ...more
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