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"Agora que vén a guerra

Levades aos homes todos

Lévanme ó meu queridiño

Lévanme a vista dos ollos

Alá no medio do mar

Suspiraba unha balea

Entre suspiros decía

Quen ten amores ten pena

Debaixo do lavadoiro

Onde maría lavaba

Había un anel de ouro

E unha mazá colorada

Baixo o piñeiro verde

Ten o meu amante a cama

E cando o amante durme

O piñeiro baixa a rama"

A de sempre - Tanxugueiras

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Vía Art

This oil painting, titled "The Sound of the Night," was created by American artist Richard Schmid in 2004.

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

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“Think not of the books you’ve bought as a ‘to be read’ pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.”

—Luc van Donkersgoed

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Life goals

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(...)

Just as cultures are linked by shared themes, a common history and customs, so we – each separately and all together – are linked by the common quality of the natural world: rivers, oceans, our environment, its forests and mountains. And stars. Man has gazed up at the stars since the birth of humanity. This is the origin of astrology, astronomy, the measurement of the seasons and the first steps of science. I believe there is no single experience in the world which tells us more than the vastness of space, and the innumerable heavenly bodies. And thus the stars form a bond between us all – regardless of country, nationality, regardless even of time.

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Philip Glass on the musical composition Orion

The official website of Philip Glass

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"Dem Deutschen Volke"

Reichstag building after the sunset.

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"If you built yourself a myth

You'd know just what to give

What comes after this

Momentary bliss?

The consequence

Of what you do to me

Help me to name it

Help me to name it"

Myth from Bloom

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Cat on dry flowers

[nonesuchrecords]

Vagabon stopped by Amoeba Music in San Francisco for a shopping trip and a chat for Amoeba’s What’s in My Bag? series, in which she picks up music by Manu Dibango, Earl Sweatshirt, Janet Jackson, Nakibembe Embaire Group, The Friends of Distinction, Stevie Wonder, Lauryn Hill, Solange, Ali Farka Touré, and Aphex Twin.

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She feels that my sentimental side / Should be held with kids gloves / But she doesn't know / That I left my urge in the icebox

Leif Erikson, Interpol

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Feliz Natal!

Wesołych Świąt!

Merry Christmas!

Photo credit: Mourad Saadi

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