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H. K. Deeb

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Author, learner, vegetarian, urban hiker, dog & cat fan, nomad. #RaiseHail, #RepBX. Qui scribit, bis legit. Thou preservest man, beast, and cloudy October eves. https://t.co/uBh3fwVYAR

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H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 22h

"I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity."
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#EdnaStVincentMillay #Millay #poems #books #literature #love #life #death #scorn #pity #memory

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 3d

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.'"
-- Hillaire Belloc

#HillaireBelloc #Belloc #dead #speech #love #life #death #books #poems #literature

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 5d

"Then falter not O book, fulfill your destiny."
-- Walt Whitman

#WaltWhitman #books #poems #literature #destiny #Americana #life #love #death

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 7d

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book."
-- John Donne

#JohnDonne #Donne #Ecstasy #mystery #soul #body #love #life #death #England #books #poems #Literature #Penelope #DavidLigare

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 9d

"I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life."
-- Harold Pinter

#HaroldPinter #Pinter #England #love #life #death #drama #poems #literature #books #drama #JustinMortimer #painting

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 12d

"My heart locks at the knees when it should fall."
-- Jean Clower

#JeanClower #poems #1950s #Americana #books #literature #life #death #love #hearts #EthelFranklinBetts

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 13d

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Tennyson #knowledge #wisdom #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #Caravaggio

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 16d

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me."
-- Charlotte Brontë

#Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #JaneEyre #England #love #life #death #books #poems #novels #literature #birds
#Robin #PaschalisDougalis

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 23d

"The study of beauty is a duel where the artist cries out in terror before being conquered."
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Baudelaire #CharlesBaudelaire #beauty #artist #books #poems #Spleen #literature #Caillebotte #painting #France

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 26d

"Our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
-- Jorge Luis Borges

#JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #art #love #life #death #artist #Argentina #books #poems #literature

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 28d

“The joke is completely lost when the jokester himself laughs."
-- Friedrich Schiller

#FriedrichSchiller #Schiller #joke #joker #jokester #love #life #death #Germany #deLaTour #painting

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · 28d

"In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded."
-- Thomas Carlyle

#ThomasCarlyle #Carlyle #writer #amwriting #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #GabriëlMetsu #Scotland

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 19

"There is no such thing as an age for love."
-- Paul Bourget

#PaulBourget #Bourget #love #life #death #age #books #poems #literature #France #EmilNolde #painting

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 18

"There's no tonic like an old friend."
-- Stephen King

#StephenKing #friendship #friends #love #life #death #books #poems #literature #tonic #Szapocznikow

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 17

"The way to be happy is to make others so."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll

#RobertIngersoll #Ingersoll #love #life #death #happiness #happy #books #poems #literature #GeorgesSeurat #painting #chahut

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 15

"When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
-- Agatha Christie

#AgathaChristie #Agatha #love #life #death #sheep #painting #KonstantinosParthenis #Parthenis #England #Greece #mystery

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Come live with me, and be my love."
-- John Donne

#JohnDonne #love #life #death #sonnets #England #books #poems #literature #KeesVanDongen #painting

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 12

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of of sincere friendship."
-- Francis Bacon

#IgorKravtsov #Kravtsov #painting #FrancisBacon #solitude #destitution #friendship #love #life #death #England #books #literature #poems

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 7

"I must write on until I am."
-- Jane Austen

#JaneAusten #writing #England #amwriting #books #poems #literature #life #love #death

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite."
-- François-René de Chateaubriand

#Chateaubriand #perfection #books #poems #literature #life #love #death #taste #genius #happiness #France #JohnWilliamGodward

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world."
-- Sarah Orne Jewett

#SarahOrneJewett #Jewett #life #love #death #amwriting #books #literature #poems #Americana #MoïseKisling

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Sep 1

"When you loved me and I loved you
Then both of us were born anew."
-- William Cartwright

#WilliamCartwright #love #life #death #poems #books #literature #England #JoanBrown #kiss

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?"
-- Jonathan Swift

#JonathanSwift #Swift #woods #owl #fear #Ireland #satire #love #life #laughter #Books #poems #literature #VincentVanGogh #VanGogh

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Aug 28

"A man never shows his own character any more clearly as in his manner of portraying another's."
-- Jean Paul

#JeanPaul #character #manner #portrait #clear #books #literature #poems #Germany #Deutschland #life #love #death #IlyaMashkov

H. K. Deeb @hadideeb.bsky.social · Aug 27

"To no one can I recommend using a false name when traveling."
-- Adolph Knigge

#Knigge #RaoulDufy #painting #Germany #France #travel #names #life #love #death #lies #books #poems #Literature