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Feels like childhood :)

more studies

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(via Culturethèque - Votre Bibliothèque numérique)

Alors! On lit et ècoute...

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“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.” — Stephen Chbosky

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My friend: Why is your backpack always so heavy??

Me, lugging around three full-length novels in my bag just in case I suddenly become a very quick reader in my fifteen-minute commute to college: Oh it has my water bottle in it

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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@pichiavo su @crashart26 e @crashart31

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Times Square, 1947, photo by Robert Frank

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Numb Sundays #books #Sunday #sun #colours #colors

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i want windswept hair, i want shirts not buttoned quite right but i’m late for class so i don’t care. i want long nights and longer mornings, strong candles burning behind conversations about plato’s divine madness.  I want wine stained lips debating over latin etymology or computer code or whatever springs to mind. i want to be so exhausted from sheer knowledge and love it. I want to be pretentious and to be a mess because why not. 

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Say hello to the Butterfly Nebula 👋

It looks like our Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a peaceful, cosmic butterfly unfurling its celestial wings, but the truth is vastly more violent. In the Butterfly Nebula, layers of gas are being ejected from a dying star. Medium-mass stars grow unstable as they run out of fuel, which leads them to blast tons of material out into space at speeds of over a million miles per hour!

Streams of intense ultraviolet radiation cause the cast-off material to glow, but eventually the nebula will fade and leave behind only a small stellar corpse called a white dwarf. Our middle-aged Sun can expect a similar fate once it runs out of fuel in about six billion years.

Planetary nebulas like this one aren’t actually related to planets; the term was coined by astronomer William Herschel, who actually discovered the Butterfly Nebula in 1826. Through his small telescope, planetary nebulas looked like glowing, planet-like orbs. While stars that generate planetary nebulas may have once had planets orbiting them, scientists expect that the fiery death throes these stars undergo will ultimately leave any planets in their vicinity completely uninhabitable.

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“We lose June. We lose July. In August we look in mirrors and want to die.”

— Kim Addonizio, from ‘The Women’, Wild Nights: New and Selected Poems

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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down."- (R.I.P. Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 ✨📝)

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[2-part comic. A cat and a dog are talking. Part 1: The cat says “I’m going to do it!” The dog asks “Do what?” Part 2: The cat says “Read all the books on my to-read list.”]

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“And suddenly the world is too beautiful for her to be scared.”

- Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

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Armchair Books 📚 Edinburgh

I discovered this bookstore this afternoon. It was like traveling in time. So many great old books there! I am in love with this place. If you are in Edinburgh it’s near Grassmarket.