September 2011
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“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one’s...”
– Moonchild, Aleister Crowley (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than...”
– Willa Cather (via libraryland)
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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
– Emily Dickinson
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Word Painting: She Walks in Beauty by George... →
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair’d the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,
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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and...”
– Ashley Smith
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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is...”
– Alan Watts, courtesy of Whiskey River (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us...”
– Gandalf (via fuckyeahlordoftherings)
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“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
– Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (via libraryland)
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“Tales are stories about stories; they are brought to us from memory and arrive...”
– Barbara Guest, Forces of Imagination (via libraryland)
June 2011
110 posts
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“Opening the book, I inhaled. The smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can...”
– The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield (via bibliotheque)
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– St. Augustine
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“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture...”
– Peter Hammill
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“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“There is a secret place. A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen. More...”
– Mirabai Starr (Interior Castle)
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“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more...”
– Jean Rhys (via reading-is-fun)
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“[A library] isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the...”
– Isaac Asimov in a March 16, 1971 (posted on lettersofnote.com)
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“What’s more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via enchants)
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“We have eyes, and we’re looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just...”
– Eric Carle (via libraryland)
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“Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur...”
– Fanny Crosby
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“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the...”
– Christopher Reeve
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
– Joseph Brodsky (via prettybooks)
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“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via atomos)
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