Constant Reader & Re-Reader πŸ“š Rest, nature, books, music, …such is my idea of happiness.” Leo Tolstoy πŸƒπŸ•ŠοΈ

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β€œThe first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.” ~ Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion Charlie Mackesy
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"I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere." ~ Leonard Cohen
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« Ce qu'on attend de l'Γͺtre avec qui l'on vit, c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus Γ©levΓ© de vous-mΓͺmeΒ Β», Virginia Woolf
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Tea with Matisse 🎨 by Shims Seng
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Good morning Illustration by Anna Weyant
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Tove Jansson painting the fresco Party in the Countryside, Helsinki, 1947 #WomensArt
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Merry month of May illus. Sonia Cavallini
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β€œI want to talk about happiness and well-being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world.” - Paul Auster
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Bluebell Wood, 2016, by English painter Emma Haworth known for her parks and semi urban landscapes with a hint of magic #WomensArt #TreeArtWeek 🌳
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Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt
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In case I have not yet said this to you, I shall say it now: you are sweet and good. Franz Kafka, 1920.
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β€žHe was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.β€œ Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ‘rquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say β€” and to feel β€” 'Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.' β€”Steinbeck
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"Je vous souhaite de souhaiter. Je vous souhaite de dΓ©sirer. Le bonheur c'est dΓ©jΓ  vouloir. Comme en droit pΓ©nal, l'intention vaut l'action. Le seul fait de rΓͺver est dΓ©jΓ  trΓ¨s important. Je vous souhaite des rΓͺves Γ  n'en plus finir, et l'envie furieuse d'en rΓ©aliser quelques-uns. Je vous souhaite d'aimer ce qu'il faut aimer, et d'oublier ce qu'il faut oublier. Je vous souhaite des passions. Je vous souhaite des silences. Je vous souhaite des chants d'oiseaux au rΓ©veil et des rires d'enfants. Je vous souhaite de respecter les diffΓ©rences des autres parce que le mΓ©rite et la valeur de chacun sont souvent Γ  dΓ©couvrir. Je vous souhaite de rΓ©sister Γ  l'enlisement, Γ  l'indiffΓ©rence, aux vertus nΓ©gatives de notre Γ©poque. Je vous souhaite enfin de ne jamais renoncer Γ  la recherche, Γ  l'aventure, Γ  la vie, Γ  l'amour, car la vie est une magnifique aventure et nul de raisonnable ne doit y renoncer sans livrer une rude bataille. Je vous souhaite surtout d'Γͺtre vous, fier de l'Γͺtre et heureux. Car le bonheur est notre destin vΓ©ritable." VΕ“ux offerts par Jacques Brel au micro d'Europe 1, le 1er janvier 1968
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"Nuestro distanciamiento de la gente no significa odio ni cambio. El aislamiento es la patria de las almas cansadas". Ernest Hemingway
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Roy Orbison April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988 β€œOrbison was singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff.His voice could jar a corpseβ€”Man, I don't believe it". Bob Dylan Thanks @CatsEyeMuseum πŸ™

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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.Β Β» Kurt Vonnegut November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007.
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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. (...) Nothing outside you can give you any place. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. Β Flannery O'Connor Wise Blood
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"Caring for others, whether people or animals, is what makes us fully human." Jane Goodall, April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025.
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RT @LuciaTassan: Buon riposino, a chi puΓ² πŸ˜½πŸ«ΆπŸ˜‰πŸ“– TornerΓ² tra alcuni giorni.πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ Al momento, sono troppo occupata, con appuntamenti e impegni…
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