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Marguerite Yourcenar
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.”
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
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James Joyce
“When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Jorge Luis Borges
“What type of sentence (I asked myself) will an absolute mind construct? I considered that even in human languages there is no proposition that does not imply the whole universe… . I considered that in the language of a god every word would enunciate that infinite concatenation of facts, and not in an implicit but explicit manner, and not progressively but instantaneously… . A god, I reflected, ought to utter only a single word and in that word absolute fullness. No word uttered by him can be inferior to the universe or less than the sum total of time. Shadows or simulacra of that single word equivalent to a language and to all language can embrace are the poor and ambitious human words, all, world, universe… .

Then there occurred what I cannot forget nor communicate. There occurred the union with the divinity, with the universe (I do not know whether these words differ in meaning). Ecstasy does not repeat its symbols; God has been seen in a blazing light, in a sword or in the circles of a rose. I saw an exceedingly high Wheel, which was not before my eyes, nor behind me, nor to the sides, but every place at one time. That wheel was made of water, but also of fire, and it was (although the edge could be seen) infinite. Interlinked, all things that are, were, and shall be formed it, and I was one of the fibers of that total fabric… .I saw the universe and I saw the intimate designs of the universe; … I saw the faceless god concealed behind the other gods. I saw infinite processes that formed one single felicity and, understanding all, I was able to understand the script of the tiger. ”
Jorge Luis Borges

Edgar Allan Poe
“Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales

Nicholson Baker
“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

49456 Vayanashala — 2658 members — last activity May 30, 2026 10:23AM
This group aims at bringing all the Keralites/Malayalis together and discussing the common interest which made us a part of this site--BOOKS.So join t ...more
106503 ♥ Nothing Better Than Reading!! ♥ — 6299 members — last activity May 30, 2026 03:48PM
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132547 Stefan Zweig Group — 90 members — last activity Jan 15, 2018 11:37PM
A Group on the books of Stefan Zweig, starting with his Memoirs, The World from Yesterday.
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
66410 100 books to read before you die — 1013 members — last activity Sep 20, 2025 02:39PM
The BBC has a list of 100 books that they think everyone should read before they die; however they predict that most people will only read 6! This gro ...more
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