Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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| — | Victor Hugo (via ruineshumaines) |
Book Now Bookshop in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Book Now is a rare and out of print secondhand bookseller that was established by proprietors Jill and Garry Murray in 1984 in the provincial Victorian city of Bendigo.
The bookshop now has a selection of 50,000 plus good quality used books. They are housed in relaxed surroundings in a nineteenth century wine and spirit merchants’ premises with a mezanine floor and a cellar.
1 Farmers Lane
Bendigo, Victoria
Australia 3550
Photo by Canon Reflex
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
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| — | Robert Frost, Desert Places (via buried-denmark) |
The “Old” Main Library. The Main Library has occupied a prominent position in downtown Cincinnati since 1874, when a new building was constructed at 629 Vine Street. Considered the most magnificent public library building in the United States at the time, “Old Main” featured one element similar to today’s library: a towering atrium with a skylight ceiling. Of the dramatic atrium,Harpers Weekly said “The first impression made upon the mind on entering this hall is the immense capacity for storing books in its five tiers of alcoves, and then the eye is attracted and gratified by its graceful and carefully studied architecture…” The building closed in 1955, when the “New Main Library,”located at 800 Vine Street, opened. More detailed information about the history of the building can be found in Free & Public: One Hundred and Fifty Years at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County by John Fleischman.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
800 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202-2009
It pained him to hear Hervé Joncour softly saying, in conclusion:
“I have never even heard her voice.”
And a while later:
“It is a strange sort of pain.”
Softly.
“To die of yearning for something you’ll never experience.”
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| — | Silk, Alessandro Baricco (via clavicola) |
“Don’t be afraid. The darkness you’re in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body. They are two darknesses separated by a skin. I bet you’ve never thought of that. You carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn’t frighten you… My dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside”
- Jose Saramago
