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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
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“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
― Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
― Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
― Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
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Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more
Literary Exploration
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— last activity Oct 20, 2025 11:56AM
Want to explore different genres? Each month we pick a different Literary book, to read and discuss. Books are picked by members via a poll.
Park Slope Lit & Beer
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— last activity Aug 19, 2012 05:09PM
for the bookish and fun in the Slope
Dark Fiction
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Because we think that a great piece of dark fiction will blow your mind, we are a group for people who enjoy all forms of dark fiction. Lots of discus ...more
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
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