January 2011
14 posts
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
– Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)
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“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)
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“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than...”
– Raymond Dufayel aka Glass Man (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)
Sylvia Plath →
theredshoes:
Very neat site which has Sylvia Plath’s poems on works of art — she wrote quite a few (some not even included here) — with pictures of the paintings. Don’t think I’ve seen this in any books, or other websites.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
—The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde