Lars

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Lars is Currently Reading

Lars is currently reading

Kampf der Kulturen: Die Neugestaltung der Weltpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert

by Samuel P. Huntington

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Lars’s Quotes

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, hope, philosophy

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“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

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“We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

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“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
― Jacob Burckhardt

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“La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: solitude

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¤ Between The Pages ¤ — 44 members — last activity Aug 31, 2020 08:29PM
Welcome Everyone! In this group, we connect as fellow readers to reach our goals and lower our TBR piles. Usually, we'll read 2 books a month, for th ...more

Classics Book Club — 17 members — last activity Mar 03, 2019 12:32PM
Hey! My 2019 Reading Goal is to read more classics, and I would love it if people joined in. In theory, it would be a book a month, equalling 12 poten ...more

Read As Many Pages As You Can Challenge — 47 members — last activity Mar 12, 2020 03:58AM
No more will readers be forced to reach for the shortest books to complete their reading challenges! Behold, a new kind of reading challenge! Often ta ...more

Continent Read-a-thon — 83 members — last activity Jan 01, 2016 12:45AM
In 2015 I want to read more diversely, which for me means, I want to read more books by authors from different continents. So every second month I'll ...more