apoetreflects:

“Every book, every volume … has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” 

—Carlos Ruiz Zafrón, from The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin Press, 2004)

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kvetchlandia:

Uncredited Photographer     Henry Miller at His Typewriter      1974

“Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us.” Henry Miller,  ”The Books in My Life” 1969

(Source: hellogorey, via compendium-of-beasts)

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supruntu:

Marguerite Yourcenar

fiore-rosso:

yi architects [stuttgart municipal library]

manuela.martin photography.

"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

Edgar Allan Poe - Complete Writings (via mirroir)

(Source: violentwavesofemotion, via colourthysoul)

"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."

Emil Cioran (via pavorst)

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mirroir:

Paul Gustave Doré, illustration for Les contes Drolatiques (Droll Stories), by H. de Balzac, 1881.

(Source: antitacta)

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fantomas-en-cavale:

Pier Paolo Pasolini par Jean-Régis Roustan, Paris, 1965

John Keats

(via randombeautysls)