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#books (at Kinokuniya)
Libreria Acqua Alta, Venezia.
(via framboisiers)
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I want to visit this Austrian Library! so many books, so beautiful!
(via debradorka)
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→ W. W. Norton: First Lines from New Books Out Today: July 18, 2011
“In the year 610 AD, an Arab man from the small town of Mecca heard an extraordinary voice in a cave. ‘Recite,’ the voice commanded him. ‘Recite in the name of your Lord who created man.’ And the world changed forever.”
Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty by Mustafa Akyol…
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ” - Elizabeth Hardwick
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wowww, I want to visit this store one day!- doan
Shakespeare & Co.
Shakespeare & Co. opened in 1951 after its owner, George Whitman, amassed a large collection of English-language books during several years living in Paris. The bookstore served as a base for many members of the Beat generation, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs among them. Its name comes from a previous Parisian bookstore (in a different location) run by Sylvia Beach, who catered to members of the Lost Generation — Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, James Joyce, etc. Today’s shop is now run by Sylvia, George’s daughter, who is named after Beach.
(Source: captainiel)
