Brain: you need new books
Me: I already have ten books I haven’t read yet
Brain: so?
Me: good point
Brain: you need new books
Me: I already have ten books I haven’t read yet
Brain: so?
Me: good point
The books…they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.
I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.
Denizler Kitabevi Bookshop in Istanbul, specializing in antique maps and maritime books.
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
— Oscar Wilde (via macrolit)
Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small.
وانمحيت من كتب التاريخ كأنه تاريخك - بأوراكنا ترجمنالُن ابيات سافو وابو نواس بلسان الآهات | my history erased from our books as if it were yours to claim. our hips translated abu nawas and sappho in misfortune tongues.
خبز الغراب بدا ينما بنورت الارض غدًا ياما -عليلي كعبك بالغنا بعدا الأغاني ممكنة | the mushrooms are starting to grow, tomorrow we inherit the earth. for now we still have songs; sing with your raised voices
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
— John Keats.
J.R.R Tolkien, looking at flowers.
Apparently people hated to go for walks with him because he would stop and look at every tree for like 20 minutes.
EXPLAINS THE BOOKS