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“I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I could feel. About the present, it was better to be stoical; about the future – such a future as mine – to be dead. And in catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.”
― Villette
― Villette
“Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing.”
― Chocolat
― Chocolat
“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.”
― Villette
― Villette
“Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both." No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.”
― Villette
― Villette
“Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”
― Chocolat
― Chocolat
Folklore & Fairytales
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— last activity Dec 17, 2025 11:06AM
For everyone who is interested in folklore and fairytales, either as a reader/hearer, writer/storyteller, or researcher.
Victorians!
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Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
The Gothic Poets Society
— 396 members
— last activity Dec 31, 2024 07:03PM
Wits, Words & Spirits! Who Are We? We are a group of like minded individuals who haunt dark halls and cemeteries, armed with pens, books and black li ...more
The Gothic Trim
— 92 members
— last activity Jun 18, 2019 06:46AM
Attic dwelling invalids, spinster relatives, the catty sniping rivals.... Those pesky ancestors who just won't leave that one-lit-window house? The ...more
Into the Forest
— 2108 members
— last activity Jan 05, 2026 05:43AM
A group to discuss the fairy and folk tales, world mythologies, mythic fiction, magical realism fiction, and monsters. Of course, we also discuss rete ...more
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