July 2012
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (via divine-despair)
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“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical...”
– J.K Rowling (via allofwhichwereamericandreams)
The Bookless Library →
ljdigital:
“It has been clear for some time now that this development would pose one of the greatest challenges that modern libraries—from institutions like the NYPL on down—have ever encountered.”
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“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
– Augustine Birrell (via da731)
“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you’re sad, you understand the...”
– Frank Ocean. (via osendentelle)
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...”
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via johnvondoom)
“When we scold our schoolteachers about the low reading scores of their students,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via rabhelpants)
“Even the simple act which we describe as ‘seeing someone we know’ is to some...”
– Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (Swann’s Way), translation by C.K. Scot Moncrieff (via play-laugh-yoga)
“No data is more personal than email correspondence… Email is deeply personal and...”
– Catherine Crump, ACLU on the U.S. government’s attempt to read our emails without a warrant
Is US government reading email without a warrant? It doesn’t want to talk about it - Red Tape
(via fictionthatmatters)
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
– e.e. cummings (via nirvikalpa)
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via larmoyante) 