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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure. All work that is not joyful is detestable, I thought. I said, do not work like that, it will bore you. I wished for everyone the kind of leisure without which no novelties, no vice, no art would blossom.

Andre Gide, The Immoralist    

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But remember, you can’t fix everything in the world for everybody.

Mary Oliver, Dog Songs

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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.

Evelina, Frances Burney (via papamerf)

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Ulyana Lopatkina and Danila Korsuntsev dancing the Black Swan pas de deux in Swan Lake (Mariinsky Ballet) - Part 4

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I quote others only to better express myself.

Michel de Montaigne (via fyp-philosophy)

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Billie Holiday, 1958, Jean-Pierre Leloir

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There is nothing in the world so fashionable as taking no notice of things, and never seeing people, and saying nothing at all, and never hearing a word, and not knowing one’s own acquaintance, and always finding fault…

Fanny Burney, Cecilia

In which I find out that the Duchess of Devonshire was pretty much a hipster of the 1700s.

(via hithisisdanielle)

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It’s a delightful thing to think of perfection; but it’s vastly more amusing to talk of errors and absurdities.

Fanny Burney (via elleninstereo)

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If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling.

Fernando Pessoa (via quotemadness)

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Billie Holiday album cover art by artist David Stone Martin (1913-1992)

All or Nothing at All, 1957 Music for Torching, 1955 Billie Holiday Sings, 1952 Billie Holiday, 1954 Billie Holiday Live at Jazz at the Philharmonic, 1954 Stay with Me, 1959 An Evening with Billie Holiday/Recital, 1952/1956

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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice-versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Doris Lessing, 1971 introduction to The Golden Notebook (via austinkleon)