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“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
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“The human heart will never wrinkle.”
― Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2
― Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2
“He’s sick.” “What with?” “Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.”
― The Silent Speaker
― The Silent Speaker
“They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“It seemed such a brief while ago that they were all laughing at Professor Nikolayev's definition of a musicologist. Imagine we are eating scrambled eggs, the Professor used to say. My cook, Pasha, has prepared them, and you and I are eating them. Along comes a man who has not prepared them and is not eating them, but he talks about them as if he knows everything about them - that is a musicologist.”
― The Noise of Time
― The Noise of Time
Reading the 20th Century
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Welcome to 'Reading the 20th Century', a friendly and inclusive group that explores and discusses the literature, history, culture and music of the ye ...more
Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War
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A place to discuss the cultural milieu of the Great War (also referred to as the First World War, World War I, WWI, World War One). The intent of this ...more
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