January 2011
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Every Book I Read in 2010
This year I decided to keep a nice list of all the books I read, which I am very grateful for now, as it is nice and handy to look at what I have read and follow my interests and how they’ve developed.
I didn’t read as much as I wanted to, school keeping me busy and all, but this year I read with more enthusiasm that I have ever before. I regret not taking the time to review many of...
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“In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is...”
– Marcel Proust, Days of Reading (via daysofreading) (via distantheartbeats, daysofreading)
December 2010
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French poetry : Rimbaud, Ma Bohème
crimsonlambda:
It’s time for some good old fashioned poetry! Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a great French poet, and this is one of his most famous works, called “Ma Bohème” (My Bohemian Life), written when he was sixteen years old.
I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets; My overcoat too was becoming ideal; I travelled beneath the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal; Oh dear me! what...
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“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is...”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
– On The Road, Jack Kerouac
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
– The Road, Cormac McCarthy
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
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I love Italo Calvino; also a mini-review of book I...
I just want to express my love for Italo Calvino. He is one of my favorite authors, and I just got two books of his for Christmas: If on a winter’s night a traveller and Cosmicomics. He is so fantastic. I read one of his books and it feels like I am discovering a magic that’s been lost for some time, but always remained truthful even though I have never seen it. I’m looking into...
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Blood- Naomi Shihab Nye
“A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,” my father would say. And he’d prove it, cupping the buzzer instantly while the host with the swatter stared.
In the spring our palms peeled like snakes. True Arabs believed watermelon could heal fifty ways. I changed these to fit the occasion.
Years before, a girl knocked, wanted to see the Arab. I said we didn’t have...
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (via Jaime C Suarez)
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A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention - Yehuda...
They amputated Your thighs off my hips. As far as I’m concerned They are all surgeons. All of them. They dismantled us Each from the other. As far as I’m concerned They are all engineers. All of them. A pity. We were such a good And loving invention. An aeroplane made from a man and wife. Wings and everything. We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.
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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
– J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via poete)
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“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live...”
– William Faulkner (via poete)
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7 Amazing Libraries →
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“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via circusfolk)
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Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they...
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“That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if...”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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i don't read...
creamlacedresses:
(Source: From top - Sr. Bigotes, imajes, deiadeia, Herbert Brant)
…but I would change that for this place, El Ateneo Grand Splendid.
An opera theatre converted into a book store? Um, that’s a combination even better than Puckleberry.
And the stage is a cafe. When you can dine on stage, who cares about Gloria Jeans (Australians will understand this).
Plus you can sit and...
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“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
– The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night- Dylan...
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying...
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death- Emily...
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A...
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Book lovers always have to touch books.
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wortundsatz:
(Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone: I’m Reading)
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“It is such a secret place, that land of tears.”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Little Prince
(via indigoday)
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“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished...”
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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Charles Bukowski
greataudiences:
if I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
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“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads,...”
– Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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