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Book cover for Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
White evangelicals have pieced together this patchwork of issues, and a nostalgic commitment to rugged, aggressive, militant white masculinity serves as the thread binding them together into a coherent whole. A father’s rule in the home is ...more
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Søren Kierkegaard
“No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Søren Kierkegaard
“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Guillermo Erades
“Russia is lost" she continued. "First we had God. Then we had Lenin. Now we have nothing.”
Guillermo Erades, Back to Moscow

Søren Kierkegaard
“I think I have the courage to doubt everything; I think I have the courage to fight everything. But I do not have the courage to know anything, nor to possess, to own anything. Most people complain that the world is so prosaic, that life isn't like a romantic novel where opportunities are always so favourable. What I complain of is that life is not like a novel where there are hard-hearted fathers, and goblins and trolls to fight with, enchanted princesses to free. What are all such enemies taken together compared to the pallid, bloodless, glutinous nocturnal shapes with which I fight and to which I myself give life and being.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Svetlana Alexievich
“The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”
Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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35919 Literary Exploration — 1571 members — last activity Mar 23, 2026 11:48AM
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166408 The Literati — 33 members — last activity Jan 19, 2019 02:09PM
“L'intellectuel est quelqu'un qui se mêle de ce qui ne le regarde pas.” – Jean-Paul Sartre We seek the answers to life and the world around us. We s ...more
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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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