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Elif Akyol

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street

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A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!

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Welcome to Five Star Series. This is a group dedicated to finding, reading and rating the best series out there! We talk about everything from mystery ...more

For Books' Sake — 304 members — last activity Oct 14, 2015 06:24AM
For Books' Sake is the online community featuring books by and for independent women. This group is for For Books' Sake readers to come together to ...more

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We share a passion for action-packed, gripping, exciting, tense thrillers and mysteries, a genre rich with talented authors. We invite you to share yo ...more

Witness: Thriller & Suspense Bookclub — 497 members — last activity Aug 12, 2020 10:47AM
The official Witness Impulse bookclub for fans and authors of suspense fiction! Join us for live discussions with our editors and authors, book giveaw ...more

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