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“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
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“The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP
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A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more
Eclectic Readers
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— last activity Oct 25, 2020 06:28AM
Eclectic Readers is a monthly book club and podcast started in June 2009 for readers who enjoy an eclectic variety of books - and talking about them n ...more
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A light, fun group of people who may not normally read classical books. So when you do, what do you think of them compared to more modern literature ...more
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