Astor Musing

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[booksandrainyyfilms]

Dead Poets Society (1989) director Peter Weir

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"I do what I want, when I want. And I don’t give a shit what people think about me."

Dean Di Laurentis

The Score; Off-Campus #3

[mudrost]

PIETRO CANONICA HOUSE MUSEUM, ROME.

[sirgawin]

People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.

Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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[lebleurenard-deactivated2021062]

✨I love you as certain dark things are to be loved - in secret, between the shadow and the soul.✨

Moodboard for @downydatura

[cruelerintentions-deactivated20]

"I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed."

Francis Abernathy

[gangsters-wife]

[macaulaytwins]

“Though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”

-The Secret History (1992)

[lebleurenard-deactivated2021062]

✨But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it the most✨

Moodboard for @lawliette

[jaelouvre]

archive ( @s6phir )

[witchingbee]

Pictures by Lottie Davis.

[etherealacademia]

i’m writing a translation comparison of catullus 16 that was due yesterday rip

[alltruedreamersdied]

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

[aerozia]

currently missing the chilly season of autumn and my beige trenchcoat.... wby?

[etherealacademia]

i miss wandering around campus alone, discovering rare books, and hanging out in all the empty chapels

[academia-darling]

“Wealth and beauty can give only a fleeting and perishable fame, but intellectual excellence is a glorious and everlasting possession.” - Sallust The War Against Catalina