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The extreme opposites of emotions tend to go hand in hand, which in this case means the more co-dependent you are, the more you don’t want to be. For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your
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“We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
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“To be born in that city—I went so far as to write once, thinking not of myself but of Lila’s pessimism—is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“that my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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Do About Nothing - 2015 reading challenge.
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This group is for the people taking part in the Do About Nothing's reading challenge of 2015 which can be viewed here>>>http://doaboutnothing.blogspot ...more
Jane Austen
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Established July 2007. Readers of Jane, gather here to discuss anything from Frank Churchill's secrets to Lady Catherine's whims. What finally "persua ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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