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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
Anthony Burgess (via aspiretowritemore)(via aspiretowritemore)
Posted on March 22, 2012 via excessive bookshelf with 380 notes
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Wit & Whimsy: Poetry.
A couple of Fridays ago I went to a poetry evening, held in an impossibly tiny basement of an incredibly blink-and-you-miss-it cafe (The Poetry Cafe, incidentally) on a back alley of Covent Garden. It was serendipitously inspiring; despite the majority of people being thrice my age, they also…
Posted on March 19, 2012 via Wit & Whimsy with 3 notes
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The future used to be such an abstract idea.. the dream was enough you know? And now the future has the nerve to just show up, and its expecting us to do something, and its not interested in giving a lending hand.
Kurt Hummel, Yes/No (via wit-and-whimsy)Posted on February 14, 2012 via Wit & Whimsy with 3 notes
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I agree that it’s important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you’d do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.
Eldest by Christopher Paolini (via anotherbookblogg)(via aspiretowritemore)
Posted on September 19, 2011 via Another Book Blogg with 76 notes
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (via scribbles-and-wanderlust)(via aspiretowritemore)
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Do I slowly empty
Or fill myself?
The same flow of sand,
Whichever way
You turn it.Marin Sorescu, “Hour-Glass,” trans. Michael Hamburger (via proustitute)Posted on September 19, 2011 via A la recherche du temps perdu with 187 notes
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