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There are perhaps three kinds of books one can write on the subject of ‘history’ in general.
“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.”
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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English Translations of Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries & Thrillers
— 2046 members
— last activity 1 hour, 52 min ago
A place to discuss Scandi Crime novels, which includes novels from: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark. Whether it's Smilia from Peter Hoeg's S ...more
Scandinavian Crime Fiction
— 377 members
— last activity Feb 06, 2023 05:36AM
Thanks to a tattooed, adventurous , bisexual computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander, Scandinavian crime fiction is now one of the most popular categor ...more
Utopian and Dystopian Reading Group
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— last activity Feb 15, 2024 12:15AM
This group is for anyone interested in Utopian and Dystopian Literature to discuss anything from Thomas More's Utopia to present day fiction. Everyone ...more
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