"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

12 October 2018

Among.


You dress slowly, wander in the garden, and then you settle down among the books – books with thick leather bindings and little gold stars on their Moroccan spines. How wonderful they smell. Like prayer books from a church with their yellowed, rough, and heavy pages. A pleasant, slightly sour mustiness laced with old perfume.

Ivan Bunin

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