“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World standardebooks.org/ebooks/rabin...
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Did you know Charles Dickens, in an attempt to battle insomnia and improve his creativity while reading and writing, always slept facing north? 🧭
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodo...
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August is "Women in Translation Month!" Let's grow each other's TBR piles a bit. What are some of your favorite translated books written by women?
Oscar Wilde at 28, photographed by Napoleon Sarony in 1882.
If you could erase the experience of reading one book to experience it for the first time again, what book would you choose?
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. – Henry van Dyke Jr. standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry...
“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” ― Leo Tolstoy
The Master said, “I will not be afflicted at men’s not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men.” –Confucius, Analects
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The Odyssey, by Homer. Translated by William Cullen Bryant - Free ebook download
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“I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.” ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pirates of Venus standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar...
Honestly, I think we are both emerging from our own personal Château d'Ifs. #literature #reading #classiclit #countofmontecristo #bookish #bookclub #ebook #publicdomain
“Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may even be pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.” ― Willa Cather, The Professor's House standardebooks.org/ebooks/willa...
“I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.” ― Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood New book just dropped: standardebooks.org/ebooks/charl...
What is the book that started it all for you? Where did you fall in love with reading?
“It is true that love soars higher than the other passions; but it can stoop lower as well.” ― Wilkie Collins, Basil standardebooks.org/ebooks/wilki...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray – 79,057 words Antigone – 10,334 words The Count of Monte Cristo – 461,521 words The Great Gatsby – 48,465 words Wuthering Heights – 116,440 words Greatness comes in all sizes.
“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear… Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.” -Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
“People thought it was silly, almost wrong to look at the end of a book. But if it spoilt a book, there was something wrong about the book." ― Dorothy M. Richardson, Honeycomb standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorot...
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“He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: "All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.” ― Kahlil Gibran, Jesus the Son of Man standardebooks.org/ebooks/kahli...
“How often people put us, though unwittingly, on the path we are seeking, he thought. How often does a chance word uttered by a stranger reveal to us our deepest aims and purposes.” ― Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid Read the first Arab-American novel today: standardebooks.org/ebooks/ameen...
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” –Confucius, Analects Read more: standardebooks.org/ebooks/confu...
Analects, by Confucius. Translated by James Legge - Free ebook download
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"[Of Human Bondage is] a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know. He just isn’t the kind of a guy I’d want to call up, that’s all. I’d rather call old Thomas Hardy up. I like that Eustacia Vye.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"You may say the wisest thing you can, old man—you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind—I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels." – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Did you know that James Joyce's eyesight was so poor that he would write with large, blue pencils or crayons lying on his stomach? It is said he would wear a large white coat to reflect as much light back onto the page as well.
“Yes, from year to year, from day to day, in our heart of hearts there's only one thing we wait for—a meeting that will bring happiness and love. Really, this hope is all we live for—and how vain it is.” – Ivan Bunin, The Gentleman from San Francisco standardebooks.org/ebooks/ivan-...
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” ― Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudya...
“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables tinyurl.com/em3yxhtt
