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Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

#rainer maria rilke #reblogged poetry #poetry

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Love your art, poor as it may be, which you have learned, and be content with it; and pass through the rest of life like one who has entrusted to the gods with his whole soul and all that he has, making yourself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man.

–Marcus Aurelius

#marcus aurelius #wordsofwisdom #literary quotes #quoteoftheday #poets on tumblr #booklr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #quoteblr #spilled quotes #spilled ink #artists on tumblr #on art #think about it #memorable quotes

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Reading the world always precedes reading the word, and reading the word implies continually reading the world.

–Paulo Freire and Loretta Slover, The Importance of the Act of Reading

#literary quotes #quoteoftheday #on reading #spilled quotes #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #quoteblr #read more #poets on tumblr #booklr

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In all my great moments I have been alone.

– H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man

#hg wells #the invisible man #science fiction #literary quotes #quoteoftheday #spilled quotes #spilled ink #readers on tumblr #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #quoteblr #booklr #literary fiction #modern classics #classic lit quotes #literati

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An invisible man is a man with power.

–H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man

#hg wells #the invisible man #literary quotes #quoteoftheday #poets on tumblr #readers on tumblr #writers on tumblr #quoteblr #literati #booklr #spilled quotes #spilled ink #classic lit quotes #science fiction #literary fiction #scifibooks

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Most of the methods any -ism uses to maintain a power differential between the privileged and the oppressed are subtle, hard to name, and even harder to prove. Many of the methods are baked into the way things are done, so that they can't be uprooted without questioning fundamental assumptions about how the world should work.

–Laura A. Tisoncik

#ableism #spilled quotes #actually autistic #autistic experiences #quoteoftheday #booklr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #quoteblr #lived experience

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It’s the misfit’s myth. It goes like this: Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful. You may not know this yet, but you have the ability to endlessly make yourself up from your own ruins. That’s your beauty.

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Misfit's Manifesto

#lidia yuknavitch #the misfit's manifesto #reblog

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Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

#reblog #beyoualways #readers of tumblr

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...it may be said with sufficient justice that the motive and end of any art whatever is to make a pattern; a pattern, it may be, of colours, of sounds, of changing attitudes, geometrical figures, or imitative lines; but still a pattern.

– R. L. Stevenson

#rlstevenson #robert louis stevenson #literary quotes #spilled quotes #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #literati #booklr #quoteblr

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What happens when we judge, or believe, or think of something: of what kind of entities does the something consist: and how is it related to the mental event which is our judging, our believing, our thinking?

– C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards

#literary quotes #quoteoftheday #language #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #quoteblr #booklr #writing #spilled quotes #spilled ink #literati #literary criticism

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

#free books #reblog #books and reading

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...I liked the idea of living in a city – any city, especially a strange one – liked the thought of traffic in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.

– Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#literary quotes #donna tartt #the secret history #quoteoftheday #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #booklr #quoteblr #literati

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...nothing is more mortifying and insufferable than to be ruined by an accident, which might have happened or not have happened, from an unfortunate accumulation of circumstances which might have passed over like a cloud. For an intelligent being it is humiliating.

–Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Gentle Spirit

#fyodor dostoevsky #dostoevksy #quoteoftheday #literary quotes #poets on tumblr #readers on tumblr #writers on tumblr #spilled ink #quoteblr #booklr #literati #short fiction #literary fiction

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pdf library

Back in 2014, when I started my senior year of undergrad and began working on my thesis, I decided to start keeping a research folder of pdfs on my desktop. In the nine years since, I’ve added to it extensively, saving course readings, articles for term papers and papers I ended up not writing, and pdfs I’ve found on tumblr, google drive, blogs, and other repositories.

The library is organized primarily by theme or major figure and is strongest in the areas of literary studies; theory and criticism; philosophy; the environmental humanities; and feminism, gender, and sexuality. Though I’ve tried to maintain a consistent organizational methodology, inevitably, a number of texts belong to more than one category or resist categorization altogether. Some pdfs also contain my notes and highlights, which I hope will not be a burden to other readers.

Anyway, I’m not sure who will be interested in this, but it’s yours now. The full archive is on google drive; below is a selection of most of the top-level folders to give you a sense of how it’s organized and what you can find there:

Academia, Pedagogy, Education, Scholarly Writing

Adorno

Affect Theory and Emotions

Animal Studies

Antinatalism

Architecture, Geography, Place, and Space

Atheism, Agnosticsm, and Secularism

Austen, Jane

Bachmann, Ingeborg

Bakhtin

Barthes

Being-with-Others

Benjamin Fondane

Benjamin, Walter

Berlant

Blanchot

Books, Book Materiality, and Bibliography

Butler

Byung-Chul Han

Capitalism, Consumerism, Work and Labor, Neoliberalism, and Economics

Care

Childfree

Childhood, Children, Parents, and Families

Cixous

Community and the Commons

David Foster Wallace

de Beauvoir, Simone

Death and Suicide

Deleuze

Derrida

Dickinson

Didion

Disability Studies and Illness

Eco, Umberto

Environmental Humanities, Climate Change, and Nature

Ethics

Everyday Life and the Ordinary

Existentialism, Nihilism, & Pessimism

Fanon

Film, TV, Art, and Visual Culture

Food Studies

Foucault

Friendship

Gender and Sexuality

Globalization and Transnationalism

grad seminars (course readings)

Heidegger

Hermeneutics and Interpretation

Hermits and Hermitages

Information Theory, Entropy, Complexity, and Quantum Poetics

Irigaray

Jewishness, the Holocaust, and Zionism

Jorie Graham

Kafka

Kearney, Richard

Kundera

Lacan

Language, Linguistics, and Semiotics

Latour

Law and Human Rights

Levinas

Literature and Philosophy

Literature and Science

Love, Intimacy, Romance, and Sex

Mastery

Material Culture, Things, and Objects

Melancholy, Mourning, Grief, and Depression

Memory, Witnessing, and Trauma

Middle East and North Africa

Modern(ism) and Literature

New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Thing Theory, and Entanglement

Norton Anthologies

Palestine

Parentheses

Peter Sloterdijk

Philosophy

Poetry and Poetics

Policing, Prisons, and Prison Abolition

Politics, Political Theory, Activism, and Current Events

Posthumanism

Postmodernism

Race, Racism, Imperialism, and Colonialism

Refugees, Immigration, Statelessness, and Exile

Religious Studies

Renaissance

Rilke

Romanticism

Russian Literature

Sara Ahmed

Science and Philosophy of Science

Silence

Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and Anarchism

Solitude and Loneliness

Spectrality, Ghosts, Hauntology, and Haunting

Spivak

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Syllabi and Teaching Resources

Technology, Media, Networks, the Internet, Information, Computers, and Hypertextuality

Textuality and Reading

Theater and Performance

Theory, Criticism, and Critique

Tiqqun

Translation

undergrad (course readings)

Video Game Studies

Violence, War, Terrorism, and Terror

Wallace Stevens

Wittgenstein

Writing and Composition Studies

#reblog #personal library #omg

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I wished to be a writer. But together with the wish there had come the knowledge that the literature that had given me the wish came from another world, far away from our own.

– V. S. Naipaul, Literary Occasions

#vs naipaul #literary quotes #quoteoftheday #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #quoteblr #booklr #spilled quotes #literati

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“I’ve known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they’re ready to write, they can’t move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.”

— E. L. Doctorow

#reblog #writers #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr

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How puzzling the human personality is. . . when with others there is a public self, alone there is a private self, and yet both are real. . . Both are experienced as real. . .

–Joyce Carol Oates, The Doll

#joyce carol oates #literary fiction #short fiction #literary quotes #quoteoftheday #spilled quotes #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #booklr #quoteblr #spilled ink #literati #books #literature