Tumgik
a-book-is-a-garden · 20 minutes
Text
“And yet, […] if I was strong enough, and patient enough… […] …I know what kind of life I’d have. I wouldn’t make an experiment out of my life: I would be the experiment of my life. Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s living only in so far as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the me for everyone.”
- Albert Camus, “A Happy Death”
21 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 1 hour
Photo
Tumblr media
Cleobis and Biton. 1884. Carl Ernst von Stetten German 1857-1942. oil/canvas. Sotheby’s Jan. 2023.      http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
604 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 18 days
Text
Tumblr media
Biblis by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
4K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 18 days
Text
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art—the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Frangonard’s canvases—beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.”
- Anne Rice, “The Vampire Lestat”
12 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 18 days
Text
Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3
82K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 26 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Albert Camus
[x]
27 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 26 days
Text
Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness [...]
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ⁠— 26th January 1958
1K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 26 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie
6K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
@lovesdaya
5K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 1 month
Text
“And yet, […] if I was strong enough, and patient enough… […] …I know what kind of life I’d have. I wouldn’t make an experiment out of my life: I would be the experiment of my life. Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s living only in so far as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the me for everyone.”
- Albert Camus, “A Happy Death”
21 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media
Paul Merwart (1855-1902) "The Nihilist" (1882)
1K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 2 months
Photo
Tumblr media
Magdalene Grieving (1605) by Caravaggio.
11K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 2 months
Text
“Too old! Are you crazy? You are just starting to live. And life still has all its joys and fruitfulness to give you. Its pains too, of course. But a great and faithful love is the crucible where joys and sorrows melt to become greatness and goodness.”
— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 8, 1950 [#178]
113 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
- Sylvia Plath
2K notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 2 months
Photo
Tumblr media
Edward Hopper (American,1882-1967)
Automat, 1927
Oil on canvas  
673 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 2 months
Text
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep woman in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a plaything.”
- Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
50 notes · View notes
a-book-is-a-garden · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media
1905 Evening gown by Gustave Beer
silk velvet plush, cotton, lace, metallic thread
(The Frick Pittsburgh)
726 notes · View notes