Reads tagged with “diaries”
George Orwell’s Dessert Recipes
Sugar and spice and a respite of nice amidst hardship.
Party Like It’s 1903: Virginia Woolf on the Ecstasy of Music and Dance
“Dance music… stirs some barbaric instinct — lulled asleep in our sober lives — you forget centuries of civilization in a second.”
Teenage Virginia Woolf on the Human Mind
“Activity of mind … is the only thing that keeps one’s life going.”
George Orwell, Feminist: The Beloved Author on Gender Equality in Work and Housework
“The position now-a-days is anomalous. The man is practically always out of work, whereas the woman occasionally is working. Yet the woman continues to do all the housework.”
Albert Camus on Happiness, Unhappiness, and Our Self-Imposed Prisons
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Endearing Record of His First Loves from His Secret Boyhood Diary
A lesson on self-awareness without self-consciousness.
Henry James on Memory, Growing Older, and What Happiness Really Means
“I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth.”
Hans Christian Andersen’s Little-Known Sketches: The Beloved Storyteller’s Illustrated Travelogue of Europe
What made Andersen particularly enchanting was his singular gift for noticing and depicting not only the whimsical, but also the wistful.
Anaïs Nin on the Elusive Nature of Joy
“There are so many joys, but I have only known the ones that come like a miracle, touching everything with light.”
ABOUT
CONTACT
SUPPORT
SUBSCRIBE
Newsletter
RSS
CONNECT
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Tumblr