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February 20, 1957 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958
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“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
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Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)
this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.
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“We need solitude, the sound of one’s own footsteps, empty rain washed streets, alone with a drifting mind, at ease with eternity.”
— Michael Boiano, from “Things I Miss”
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Carson McCullers che vedo per la prima volta in piedi. Carson!
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The world of books and music and art and ideas opened up before her.
- Walker Percy
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge
July 03 - Bookmarks 🔖
Bookmarks I've made during work calls while disassociating...
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The only thing in this world is music—music and books and one or two pictures. I am going to found a colony where there shall be no marrying—unless you happen to fall in love with a symphony of Beethoven—no human element at all, except what comes through Art—nothing but ideal peace and endless meditation.
— Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. I
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“A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin.”
— John Dos Passos, b. 14 January 1896
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Originally published: 1955
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus
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starting this one on a frigid winter night
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I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent, and working at a pace so slow, that I would be able to hear myself living.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia" (Penguin, February 16, 2006) (via Make Believe Boutique)
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Kaoru Yamada
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The tiniest book shelf
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers
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January, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]