Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via bookmania) Via Book Mania!The New Stuttgard City Library (Die neue Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart), Germany. The New City Library opened on 14th October 2011 in Stuttgart, Germany. Visitors have about 500,000 books, films, sound recordings, newspapers, music, art and digital media available on over 11,500 square feet in a nine-storey building. (via Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart)
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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via bookmania) Via Book Mania!
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.” ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Photo by Dimitri Caceaune)
Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
–Betty White
There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion but who never does a manly concrete deed.
– William James (@louieboy)I tend to agree.
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Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen is a bookshop which was once a Dominican church. Years ago, the church was still a place for people to park bicycles in Maastricht, Netherlands. Architectural firm Merkx+Girod designed the church by altering the interiors a little by adding modern elements and keeping the original architectural style. Successfully opened on Christmas day of the year 2006, Selexyz offers a wide range of popular books and books for professionals. (photo by Ana Compadre)
Now that’s what I call a sanctuary.
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via bookmania)Sounds like a stalker to me.
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