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"So they journeyed together, following the fleeing darkness into a wind that tasted like nails. The rind of the country cracked, and the flesh of it peeled back into gullies and ravines or shriveled into scabby hills."

- Peter S. Beagle
🎨 by Tore Billing

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2022-09-11

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”

The Sandman, Neil Gaiman 📖

Art 🎨 by Merli Luca

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2022-09-10

“The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed & rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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2022-09-10

‘He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest…things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.’ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

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2022-09-10

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness & humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

🎨Illustrations by N.C Wyeth

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2022-09-10

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Daphne duMaurier
Rebecca



artist not named

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2022-09-10

The story of a princess — possibly a fairy with power over animals — whose disappearance has a profound effect on a family. Alvan Fisher, "#MerrimackRiver Landscape" "Regional Literature" https://t.co/yAB80aF0Uo

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2022-09-04

'Our legends of witchcraft & sorcery are very poor, and in some of these,...,the witch is evidently a fairy.The reason of this is not that the belief in witchcraft is extinct among the Basques,but because it is so rife.'Wentworth Webster,Basque Legends🎨Isaac Levitan

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2022-09-03

There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.

~ William Wordsworth

🎨 Finelia Grace


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2022-09-03

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"

~ Rabindranath Tagore

🎨 Rembrandt

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2022-09-03

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?”
🖼️Valentina Jaskina

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2022-09-03

“I have sailed over Rungholt town today,
six hundred years ago it was washed away.
The waves still pound there, wild and harsh,
just as before, when they destroyed the marsh.
...
From the sea comes a weird and mocking shriek: Trutz, blanke Hans!" (Liliencron)

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2022-09-03

Bengali literature
Folk Tales of Bengal (1883) by Lal Behari Dey
Illustrations by Warwick Goble

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2022-09-03

"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, & so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."

Jorge Luis Borges

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2022-08-28


“I...confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Atlas
🖼 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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2022-08-27



Soft hair, hair that is all the softness of the world:
without you lying in my lap, what silk would I enjoy?

sweet the ancient sadness, at least for the few hours it slips between my hands.
—Gabriela Mistral, Children’s Hair

🎨 Marie Fischerova Kvechova

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2022-08-27

"Only those who dare may fly"

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

🖋 Luis Sepúlveda Chilean writer and Greenpeace activist



🎨 Edmund Dulac

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2022-08-27

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

—Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
art by Justyna Dura

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2022-08-27

‘Grey and furtive in the final twilight,
he lopes by, leaving his spoor along the bank
of this nameless river that has quenched the thirst
of his throat, these waters that repeat no stars.’ A Wolf, Borges. 🐺

Join us on for a day of South American literature.

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2022-08-26


"Go not to the Nixie’s pool!
In those waters dim and cool
Gleams a pale and lovely face
Framed in hair like green fern-lace,
Arms of more than mortal grace
Smooth as lily, and as cool."

Leah Bodine Drake, Weird Tales May 1946

🎨 Arthur Rackham, The Rhinemaidens

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2022-08-21