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The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

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"I’m gonna be reading this for a while" — Feb 18, 2026 08:40PM

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Diaries, 1910-1923

by Franz Kafka

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"Continuing on my Kafka deep dive" — Feb 24, 2025 12:36PM

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Against Interpretation and Other Essays

by Susan Sontag

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Anna’s Quotes

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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readers advisory for all — 5700 members — last activity Feb 19, 2026 05:23AM
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50 books to read before you die — 11923 members — last activity Feb 19, 2026 02:44PM
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