snobbish lifestyle @snobbishlifestyle - Tumblr Blog

miamaimania

Shadows Unspoken: A Moment with Katrien Van Breedam

last-picture-show

Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1910

sherlockology

Happy New Year from London to all Sherlock fans around the world!

selfundiagnosed

lostincitylight

Chillida

huariqueje

Sun Drenched Studio - Chloe Chlumecky , 2025.

Canadian , b. 1999 -

Oil on wood panel , 20 x 16 in.

sacred-dwellings

Mural work of Jean Cocteau | writer, designer, playwright, filmmaker, and painter

nevver

Look through any window, Paloma Salgado Díaz

victusinveritas

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."