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“Go ahead then; study, study and meditate well what you study....

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:57:00 +0800

“Go ahead then; study, study and meditate well what you study. Life is a very serious thing and only those with intelligence and heart go through it worthily. To live is to be among men and to be among men is to struggle. But this struggle is not a brutal and material struggle with men alone; it is a struggle with them, with one’s self, with their passions and one’s own, with errors and preoccupations. It is an eternal struggle with a smile on the lips and tears in the heart. On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.” — José Rizal, in a letter written to Alfredo Hidalgo

The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra, Portugal.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:27:00 +0800

The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra, Portugal.

from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:23:12 +0800

from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

“Opus Shelving” by Sean Yoos

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:01:00 +0800

“Opus Shelving” by Sean Yoos

"They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:08:00 +0800

“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat’s shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:07:00 +0800

“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Greenlight Bookstore at Brooklyn, NYC (via meyemory)

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:39:00 +0800

Greenlight Bookstore at Brooklyn, NYC (via meyemory)

Lots of books at 0.24 US Dollar (Php10). One of the secondhand...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:57:00 +0800

Lots of books at 0.24 US Dollar (Php10). One of the secondhand bookshops in the Philippines sells books for as low as 24 cents!

"Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:08:00 +0800

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

- Louisa May Alcott, Rose In Bloom

"Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:10:00 +0800

“Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.”

- Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

A bookshop in Manchester captured by Carl Chapman using a...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:58:30 +0800

A bookshop in Manchester captured by Carl Chapman using a Russian camera.

"The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:06:00 +0800

“The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.”

- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"My life is a reading list."

Fri, 31 May 2013 11:34:00 +0800

“My life is a reading list.”

- John Irving

Now here’s a reading chair! (via everybodyreadingbooks)

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:55:00 +0800

Now here’s a reading chair! (via everybodyreadingbooks)

"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 10:03:00 +0800

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"I give you virtually everything I have. I give you all the best things I have, and while these..."

Mon, 27 May 2013 07:56:00 +0800

“I give you virtually everything I have. I give you all the best things I have, and while these things are things that I like, memories that I treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on my walls, I can show them to you without diminishing them. I can afford to give you everything.”

- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I love her and that is the beginning and end of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:09 +0800

“I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald (Art by by Imkellycummings)

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:27:00 +0800

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In The Great Gatsby...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:30:41 +0800

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby’s tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

"Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:37:00 +0800

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”

- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake