BOOKS AND HAPPINESS
“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.”
Anonymous
Girl Reading
Edmund Tarbell – circa 1909
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EUDORA WELTY ~ A PASSION FOR BOOKS
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them — with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them …”
― Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings
Lady Clementina Hawarden
Lady Clementina’s daughter, also called Clementina
1860s
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ~ READ TO LIVE
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THE ART OF READING
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.”
David L. Ulin, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
The Artist and His Model – Alexei Harlamoff, 1875
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W.H. AUDEN ~ ON BOOKS
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CARL LARSSON ~ KARIN READING
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MARINA TSVETAEVA ~ ON BOOKS
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
~Marina Tsvetaeva
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ISAAC ISRAELS ~ READING GIRL ON A SOFA
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KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ BEING A WRITER
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