Tavik Simon, Vilma reading on a Sofa, 1912

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”

Anthony Trollope

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Some quotes by writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

Wikipedia

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The New Novel,

Winslow Homer, 1877

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Lady on a Sofa,

Harold Gilman, c 1910

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At the Breakfast Table with the Morning Newspaper,

L. A. Ring, 1898

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Emil Nolde

Printemps dans la chambre, 1904

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Karin Reading, 1904

I love books, I love to read, I love to look at books, love to touch books…

Monique

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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot

Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890)
Dolce far niente
Oil on Canvas
-1877

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“Returned from the beach” 1924

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