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home sweet home

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Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)

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Woman at Her Secretary. René-François-Xavier Prinet (French 1861-1946). Oil on canvas. 

Prinet is noted for his bourgeois interiors and portraits. The lady writes in a well appointed interior space, perhaps a parlour, with artwork, upholstered chairs, wallpaper, and a fine secretary with books. She is dressed casually, in a short skirt, which suggests a later date.

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Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry c. September 1927, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III: 1925-30

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Blackfriars college library, Oxford

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Find me on booksta - TheBookSaviour

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how fun would if be if i could actually finish some books instead of starting more 🥲

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The flock of crows is cawing, I can hear the silky rainy murmur as they fly low and spread out among the firs. It’s very beautiful. 

28 August 1925 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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I heard u liek Van Gogh

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Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

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@ papper

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— Marguerite Duras, "The Ravishing of Lol Stein," pub. c. 1964 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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╰┈➤ vintage heart cards ・❥・

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February productivity challenge day 22: what are your favorite color combinations?

As I’m sure you can tell by my feed, everything is cream and beige!!

I went to Barnes & Noble to work on my courses today and did several hours of work. Burnt my tongue on my favorite hot cinnamon spice tea. Came home to my little doggie who didn’t help much with my book organization project 🐩📖

🎶 Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? - Arctic Monkeys

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this is not a drag on fanfiction but if you find yourself consistently saying “wow fic is better than most published stuff!! and it’s free!!” it might be a sign that your brain is ready for and craving more complicated literature than the books you are used to gravitating towards

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It's incredible, really, how wanting to know what happened in the past can be an even stronger hook in a story than wanting to know what happens next. The urge to understand why things are the way they are, even knowing that it can't be changed, is so powerful