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“but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“The Indian, in truth, no longer has a country. He is reduced to starvation or to warring to the death. The Indian´s first demand is that the white man shall not drive off his game and dispossesses him of his lands. How can we promise this unless we prohibit emigration and settlement...The end is sure and dreadful to contemplate.
General John Pope”
― Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
General John Pope”
― Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
“We can choose to organise our cities and states in new ways that benefit everyone. The curse of civilisation can be lifted.”
― Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures
― Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures
“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Time is a trick. From an outside vantage point we live a certain length of time, one that we measure in minutes, hours and seconds, birthdays and anniversaries. But we don’t live at a vantage point to ourselves: we are immersed. We live in fits and starts and jumps, like dreams. And the lives we inhabit are measured in moments, irrespective of time. How we live is strange and uncertain and not written on any map.”
― It's Not Yet Dark
― It's Not Yet Dark
Reading the Classics
— 4045 members
— last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
The Milan Kundera Society
— 21 members
— last activity Jul 30, 2011 12:20PM
This group is intended to be a friendly gathering of readers who admire Milan Kundera. Let's talk about our favorite books, discuss his topics, share ...more
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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