Arrogance.

[mary-philbin]

Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[howifeltabouthim]

Perhaps she would be a balm to his wounded self-esteem. Perhaps he should make her his mistress . . . have his fill of a woman who wanted him.

Mary Balogh, from The Secret Pearl

[kafkasapartment]

Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies (Nutcracker), 1978. Arthur Elgort. Pigment Print.

[boydswan]

Julius Caesar (1953) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz ​​​

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Eikoh Hosoe

[mrspacino]

Les Larmes, 1932 & Lydia et Mannequins, 1926

Man Ray (1890–1976)

[thecountesstold]

Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Mabuse Gertrude Welcker as Countess Dusy Told Bernhard Goetzke as State Prosecutor Norbert von Wenk Alfred Abel as Count Told Aud Egede-Nissen as Cara Carozza Paul Richter as Edgar Hull

DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER Part I: The Great Gambler/Part II: Inferno 1922 | Fritz Lang

[road0flife]

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Ore wa matteru ze ( 俺は待ってるぜ, I Am Waiting), Dir. Koreyoshi Kurahara,1957.

[virgin-martyr]

Consumption, combustion, these were her vocations.

Angela Carter, excerpt from "Black Venus"

[disease]

"FREEWAY INTERCHANGE" ANSEL ADAMS | LOS ANGELES, 1967 [gelatin silver print | 9 x 6"]

[melliifluent]

“Moonlit nights are really lovable.”

— Gopal Puri, from a letter to Kailash Puri written c August 1942 (via ultraheroin)

[virtuousflower]

“smultronställe (n.) lit. “place of wild strawberries”; a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness.”

— probably my favorite swedish word (via oiseauperdu)

[undinesea]

Butterflies, William Baxter Closson

[paper-fairy]

“You seem already to belong to another world;”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1812

[rilke]

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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