wisdom and beauty

beauty, words, art

[modcubical]

[quotemadness]

“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

— Edgar Allan Poe (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

— Victor Hugo (via quotemadness)

[cair--paravel]

Illustrations by Howard Pyle for The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (1907).

[books-n-quotes]

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via books-n-quotes)

[goodreadss]

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain (via goodreadss)

[goodreadss]

““A room without books is like a body without a soul.””

— Marcus Tullius Cicero (via goodreadss)

[goodreadss]

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via goodreadss)

[artist-sarian]

Rural landscape, Martiros Sarian

https://www.wikiart.org/en/martiros-sarian/rural-landscape-1962

[nemfrog]

Exercises for harpists. Petite méthode de harpe : op. 61. 1890s? Arpeggios for two hands. 

Internet Archive

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”

— Djuna Barnes

[wnq-typography]

The Capacity

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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I fell asleep in a river, I woke in a river, of my mysterious failure to die I can tell you nothing,”

— Louise Glück, from The Complete Poems of L. G.: 1962-2012; “Landscape,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I was softened to the point of ineffable decay, I was unendingly dissolving into happiness after happiness in my own ashes.”

— Violette Leduc, from “Thérèse et Isabelle,” originally published c. 1966

[books-n-quotes]

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (via books-n-quotes)

[goodreadss]

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho (via goodreadss)

[goodreadss]

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”

— Frida Kahlo (via goodreadss)