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“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce.
Joyce was born #OnThisDay in 1882. #HappyBirthday

#OnThisDay in 1813, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was first published.

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

J.D. Salinger’s "The Catcher in the Rye", was published on this day in 1951.
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

"If you want to be happy, be."
#Tolstoy
📷Leo Tolstoy with his family circle at Yasnaya Polyana, about 1905.

#OnThisDay in 1633, Galileo is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.

#OnThisDay in 1942, Anne Frank began to write the lines that would become her world-famous diary.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire"
#OnThisDay in 1865, W B Yeats was born in the Sandymount area of Dublin

‘Miniature of a battle for a soul, with God in heaven above.'
Book of Hours. Bruges, c. 1500. British Library, King’s 9, detail of f. 212v.

#OnThisDay in 1936, Edna St Vincent Millay's "Conversations at Midnight" book of poetry was destroyed in a hotel fire.

On April 26, 1564, William, son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, was baptized in Holy Trinity Church.