milkandpus:

Albrecht Dürer, detail from St. Jerome

Albrecht Dürer, detail from St. Jerome

spirituus:

stockholm library by pearled on Flickr.

stockholm library by pearled on Flickr.

I know that He exists.
Somewhere—in silence —

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—	Emily Dickinson, from “[365]” (via proustitute)

Read the best books first, or you may not have the chance to read them at all.

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—	Henry David Thoreau (via libraryland)

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

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—	Arthur Christopher Benson (via ilovereadingandwriting)

legrandcirque:

A woman holding up a light in a dark library. Photograph by Lisa Larsen. Mongolia, September 1956.

thegirlandherbooks:

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

stilllifequickheart:

William Paxton

Interior

1910-17