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[bookzlovers]

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of a library."

Jorge Luis Borges 

[chiththarthan]

Revisiting the Art of Book Reading in the Digital Age

Book reading is a cherished habit that has been a source of solace and enlightenment for generations. Whether one is lost in the pages of a thrilling novel or learning from a scholarly text, the experience of reading a book is one that is unmatched.

For those who embrace the joy of reading, the act of opening a book and losing oneself in its pages is a sacred ritual. The peacefulness that comes from being lost in a good book is a feeling that is both calming and rejuvenating. In a world where there is so much chaos and noise, books provide a space where one can find refuge and stillness.

[apoemaday]

Earthseed

by Octavia Butler

Here we are– Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind God, Shaping God. Consider— We are born Not with purpose, But with potential. All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.

[incidentalcomics]

How To Write a Poem (for The Southampton Review)

https://linktr.ee/grantdraws

[bookzlovers]

Let us just say that the idea of struggling to make my way in a world of privileged, affluent people exhausted me before I even tried: I was the child of nothing, I had neither beauty not charm, neither past nor ambition; I had not the slightest savoir-fare or sparkle. There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demands upon my person, so that for a few moments each day I might be allowed to assuage my hunger.

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

[bookzlovers]

"When tea becomes ritual, it take it's place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?"

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

[bookzlovers]

Margaret Atwood is a legit prophet.

[bookzlovers]

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen

[bookzlovers]

[bookzlovers]

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."

Gustave Flaubert

[bookzlovers]

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

P.G. Wodehouse

[chiththarthan]

Let us just say that the idea of struggling to make my way in a world of privileged, affluent people exhausted me before I even tried: I was the child of nothing, I had neither beauty not charm, neither past nor ambition; I had not the slightest savoir-fare or sparkle. There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demands upon my person, so that for a few moments each day I might be allowed to assuage my hunger.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (via chiththarthan)

[bookzlovers]

[bookzlovers]

"One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony."

Haruki Murakami, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[bookzlovers]

“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

[bookmania]

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott

[ig//lennart]

[bookzlovers]

"I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted."

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone