"A room without books is like a body without a soul"
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Karl Bryullov, ‘Last Day of Pompeii’, (Details)
- Fernando Pessoa, from ' The Book Of Disquiet'
When Evelyn Waugh wrote "sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all" and I felt that in my bones.
The Greek Class
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