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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony. Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

🖋 The page nobody reads. Every book opens with a dedication. Most of us turn straight past it. This one is worth stopping for.

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Beloved Toni Morrison Her estimate of those who died in the Atlantic slave trade. Two words, and the novel has not started yet. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

📚 5 books on Auschwitz

Chosen by Mary Fulbrook.

1️⃣ Auschwitz and After ✍️ Charlotte Delbo 2️⃣ Man's Search for Meaning ✍️ Viktor Frankl

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

3️⃣ The Search: The Birkenau Boys ✍️ Gerhard Durlacher 4️⃣ The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law ✍️ Devin O Pendas 5️⃣ Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany ✍️ Marie Jalowicz-Simon ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Bad I am, but yet thy child. Father, be thou reconciled. Spare thou me, since I see With thy might that thou art mild. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thee, God, I Come from ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it. Kaoru Kurimoto, The Battle of Nospherus ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. ... We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them. Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

📚 5 books: Books on Anger at Racial Injustice

Chosen by Myisha Cherry.

1️⃣ Killing Rage: Ending Racism ✍️ bell hooks

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

2️⃣ Race Matters ✍️ Cornel West 3️⃣ The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America ✍️ Nicholas Buccola 4️⃣ White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide ✍️ Carol Anderson 5️⃣ Citizen: An American Lyric ✍️ Claudia Rankine

Memory is a tough place. You were there.

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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he: not an instant stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door-- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... Neil Gaiman ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

📚 5 of the best Jane Austen Books

Chosen by Patricia Meyer Spacks.

1️⃣ Sense and Sensibility ✍️ Jane Austen

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

2️⃣ Pride and Prejudice (Book) ✍️ Jane Austen 3️⃣ Emma ✍️ Jane Austen

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

4️⃣ Persuasion ✍️ Jane Austen

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

5️⃣ A Companion to Jane Austen ✍️ Claudia L Johnson and Clara Tuite ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @ebookscafe ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖