Ethel Sands
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes… My world began to expand very rapidly,… the reading habit had got me securely.
— H. G. Wells (via amandaonwriting)
Franz Kafka Snow Globe. I mean, who *doesn’t* think ‘snow globe’ when they think of ‘Franz Kafka’? (at Petřínská rozhledna | Petřín Lookout Tower)
“I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” —Leo Tolstoy, January 25, 1851
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
— Margaret Atwood (via nathanielstuart)
Favourite Covers Friday- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
For previous Favourite Covers see here: http://susanandherbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/Favourite%20Covers%20Friday
Which is your favourite?
Vladimir Volegov
Camus
Libreria Antiquaria Il Cartiglio, Torino, Italia.
‘In a way, literature is truer than life,’ he said to himself. ‘On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that’s why it’s false. But it’s damned satisfying. In life, you’re constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.’
— The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir (via literarylust)
Czene Bela - Fiatal lany
