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French Impressionist Painter Claude Monet born #OnThisDay in 1840*
Claude Monet Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*
'Reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop.'
--Ray Bradbury / Happy day, readers!*
'A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life' JRR Tolkien*
-Make time to read / Happy day, readers!
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” ―Sylvia Plath*
Autumn Rain by Edvard Munch - 1892*
There is no enjoyment like reading.. Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published #onthisday 1811*
Reading skeleton illustrated by Cyril Bouda, from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 1957 edition*
Georges Bizet, French 19th Century composer famous for the opera Carmen, born #onthisday in 1838* Happy Birthday!
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso born #OnThisDay in 1881*
Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach*
'Happiness is in the quiet.. A table, a chair, a book.' -Virginia Woolf*
·Vincent Van Gogh & Gauguin’s Chairs, 1888*
“She lives the poetry she cannot write.” ―Oscar Wilde*
·Portrait of Oscar Wilde, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895*
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