“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
― A Home at the End of the World
― A Home at the End of the World
“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
Hey, Man! Let's Read
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— last activity Aug 17, 2011 04:14PM
Hey, Man! Let's Read is a reading challenge set to start in August 2011. The goal is to try and read one book per week for an entire year. Difficult? ...more
Libros para estudiantes de español de nivel intermedio / Books for intermediate Spanish learners
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— last activity Oct 04, 2020 08:45AM
Este es un grupo para recomendar y hablar sobre libros y otras obras en español intermedio por diversión y para practicar español. La idea es tener un ...more
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