too many books

 

“Psychopathia librorum…

I surround myself with the printed word.”

 

~ Sven Birkerts ~

 

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LA FEMME QUI LIT

 

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

 

~ Lisa Kleypas ~

 

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THE CONCEPT OF GLASS

 

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

 

~ Robertson Davies ~

 

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NEW SPRING FLOWERS

 

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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TO BREATHE BETWEEN DEATHS

 

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

 

~ Mae West ~

 

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THERE WAS ALWAYS THE LEARNING

 

“Man…is above all the plaything of his memory.”

 

~ Andre Breton ~

 

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THE EXPERIMENT

 

“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

 

– Carl Sagan ~

 

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SO MUCH OLDER THEN

 

“All diseases run into one, old age.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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LA FEMME QUI LIT

 

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

 

~ Lisa Kleypas ~

 

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TOO MANY BOOKS

 

“Psychopathia librorum….

I surround myself with the printed word.”

 

~ Sven Birkerts ~

 

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THE BEAUTY OF BOOKS

 

“So many books, so little time.”

 

~ Frank Zappa ~

 

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SARASWATI

 

“A mind is a fire to be kindled,

not a vessel to be filled.”

 

~ Plutarch ~

 

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PHANTASMAGORIA

 

“Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu.”

“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”

 

~ Thomas Aquinas ~

 

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NEXT TIME I’LL KNOW BETTER

 

“There’s a bit of magic in everything,

and some loss to even things out.”

 

~ Lou Reed ~

 

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LIBERE TON ESPRIT

 

“There is nothing more powerful and

nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.”

 

~ Bryant McGill ~

 

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THE WRITING IN THE CLOUDS

 

“Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky.”

 

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

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