When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
Quand je pense à tous les livres qu'il me reste à lire, j'ai la certitude d'être encore heureux.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, November 23, 2017
Happiness Guaranteed
Jules Renard, Journal (June 23, 1902; tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget):
Charles Emmanuel Biset, Still Life with Books, a Letter and a Tulip