Thousands of books are waiting to be discovered.
Recommended Books
See All
“What is love? For the rabble love is a kind of variety, a transient vulgarity; the rabble's conception of love is best found in their obscene ditties, in prostitution and in the foul idioms they use when they are halfway sober, such as "shoving the donkey's foreleg in mud," or "putting dust on the head." My love for her, however, was of a totally different kind. I knew her from ancient times—strange slanted eyes, a narrow, half-open mouth, a subdued quiet voice. She was the embodiment of all my distant, painful memories among which I sought what I was deprived of, what belonged to me but somehow I was denied. Was I deprived forever?”
The Blind Owl • Sadegh Hedayat““The child’s heart forgets but does not forgive.””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos“Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
The Prophet • Kahlil Gibran“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche