Myrtle Reed, The book of clever beasts; studies in unnatural history (1904) Illustrations by Peter Newell
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Literary Birthday - 26 February
Happy Birthday, Victor Hugo, born 26 February 1802, died 22 May 1885
Top 10 Victor Hugo Quotes
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
- There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
- A library implies an act of faith.
- He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
- One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
- What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Hugo was a French author whose works include novels, plays, essays, and poems. In France, he is best known as a poet but in the English-speaking world he is most famous for his two historical fiction novels, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables.
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never NOT reblogging this. When people say this, they’re implying that a mans natural state is ‘rapist’ - that when they see a woman, they must CONTROL themselves so they don’t rape them - as if they have no control over themselves because they’re some sort of sexual beast.
YOU GO GIRL!
this is beautiful. c’:
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Sangat konyol ketika seseorang mengakui rezeki tetapi menentang keberadaan Tuhan.
Uang adalah suatu bentuk baru dari perbudakan
Literary Stamps - The Russian Writers
Anton Chekov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Boris Pasternak
Maxim Gorky
Alexander Pushkin
Leo Tolstoy
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“We’re in love. We just want to be together. What’s wrong with that?”
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
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