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Hot Literati is a community and literary movement of people all around the world. We help our members explore their own interiority, set goals, and connect with other members in beautiful, fun, and unlikely ways.

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”Sylvia Plath“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”James Baldwin“Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”Edith Wharton“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”Mary Oliver“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”Charlotte Bronte“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”Jorge Luis Borges“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”Oscar Wilde“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”Virginia Woolf“If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”Zora Neale Hurston“A reader lives a thousand lives before she dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”George R.R. Martin“We read to know we are not alone.”C.S. Lewis“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”Louisa May Alcott“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”Sylvia Plath“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”James Baldwin“Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”Edith Wharton“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”Mary Oliver“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”Charlotte Bronte“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”Jorge Luis Borges“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”Oscar Wilde“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”Virginia Woolf“If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”Zora Neale Hurston“A reader lives a thousand lives before she dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”George R.R. Martin“We read to know we are not alone.”C.S. Lewis“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”Louisa May Alcott

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