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just another thursday: studies, readings & coffee

Dresden, Germany

days filled with reading 💭

happy september to everyone! 🍂☕️

sneak peek of my bookshelf

the one with the brains

[top right picture belongs to @sadcypher]

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my room perpetually smells like coffee now

There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.

Lisa Schroeder, My Secret Guide to Paris

A tiny devil vitrified in a prism of glass. In the 18th century, the Imperial Treasury of Vienna attested that this was a real demon which had been trapped in glass during an exorcism in Germany a century earlier. ⁣From the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna.⁣

van gogh's starry night as a kindle cover

ordered a customizable spotify plaque for more dark academia vibes

THE SECRET HISTORY- NETFLIX SERIES

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

Alexis Carrel

Paul Atreides - The Emperor of the Universe

Donna Tartt developed some of the most stoic, serious, and selfish characters I’ve ever seen. The way she made every character in the Greek Class horribly unemotional for one another, really adds to the terror of the book.

That is one reason I wish she would’ve been able to keep the initial title of the book: The God of Illusions. Because that is the backbone of this group; it’s all just an illusion of friendship, an illusion that they care. They don’t care for one another, none of them are overly concerned about anyone but themselves. They are all extremely solitary people that came together for the look of being able to have friends, rather than for the want of friendship.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

"Christmas is a magical moment of glory; the birth of humanity."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

51. What question could you ask to find out the most about a person?

My answer (fair’s fair) is a well- timed “how are you?” I find if you ask at a moment they’re concentrating on something else, or otherwise demonstrate genuine interest or even curiosity, most people (yes, even us English) will give an honest answer, sometimes more honest than they mean to.

Oohh, what an interesting question! I feel like I would also ask "how are you doing?" But or me, I would ask "What do you want to do?" Sometimes, they'll answer what they want to do in the present moment like grabbing a coffee, or they'll dive into a monologue about what they want for their future or dream job/education. I think it reveals more about the person whether they answer in "present" or "future" terms. You get to know how they feel or where they want to be right now or you understand what they really want for themselves in the long term.

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

Voltaire

The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper

Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.

painting and details of The Roses of Heliogabalus // by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

i found a few collins classics in the bookstore and i really wanted to buy Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species but i decided to save it for another time it was also hardbound and therefore very expensive huhu.

penguin classics are unfortunately far out of my budget but collins classics are a great replacement for them because they're way cheaper :> i'm going to be super busy reading all of them during christmas break.

while at the bookstore, there were two girls beside me that were talking about the classics in the bookshelf in front of us. it's really nice to see that more people are appreciating classic literature, especially in our country where it's not really popular and well-known, not like other western countries.

anyways, here are the books i bought from the bookstore. hopefully, my relatives leave me alone while i'm reading :>

going out today to get some classics from the bookstore. i would usually spend my weekends doing backlogs but i wanted to reward myself for getting really good grades last quarter :>

'Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas.'

"Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is truth."

Isaac Newton, Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae

"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched

by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks

back to its former dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

that one day is going to happen tomorrow 💖

one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.

Morning Star (Lucifer) // by Paul Fryer at Holy Trinity Church

"Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day."

virginia woolf