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“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
― Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
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“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― Self-Consciousness
― Self-Consciousness
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina Read-A-Long
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— last activity Feb 19, 2013 07:59PM
From the 28th Oct until 22nd Dec we will be reading the Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina. As it is quite a daunting book it has been broken down into 8 s ...more
The Year of Reading Proust
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— last activity Mar 29, 2025 09:41AM
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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