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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I was poised on its dizzy summit,”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014
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— last activity Mar 09, 2019 04:37PM
A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
One Year In Search of Lost Time ~ 2015
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— last activity Dec 17, 2016 10:49AM
We're reading Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time in one year. It's one of the masterpieces of western literature, but it's a difficult read, in la ...more
2017: Our Year of Reading Proust
— 68 members
— last activity Dec 31, 2017 01:05PM
You keep saying you're going to read Proust, right? Well 2017 is YOUR YEAR! Let's do this! Detailed Reading Schedule Forthcoming. I don't have grandi ...more
2018: Our Year of Reading Proust
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— last activity Aug 31, 2024 06:05PM
Join us to read Marcel Proust in 2018! Beginners or experts- all are welcome. In Search of Lost Time, from 1.1.18 to 12.31.18 . We can do this! If ...more
Odysseus to Ulysses
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— last activity Jun 22, 2024 05:04PM
This group will be reading first Homer's The Odyssey, for which we plan to take around two months, and then James Joyce's Ulysses, which may take abou ...more
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