its magic and you know it

Look at the stars. Same stars as last week. Last year. When we were kids. When we weren't even born. In a hundred years, no one will ever know who we were... They'll know those same stars.

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Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994)

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Freja Beha Erichsen in Saint-Tropez filming Chanel’s Remember Now, 2010

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I think you need a break

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Its effort is vain, the darkness of this spring night: true, we cannot see the colour of the plum blossoms— but how can it hide their scent?

Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (d. c. 925?), courtier of the Heian period

In Japan, plum trees blossom in February and March: the very first flowers to appear. Their gentle but persistent beauty announces the arrival of spring.

Admiring plum blossom with (top to bottom, left to right): Yoshida Hiroshi, Plum Gateway, 1935 [source]; Takahashi Hiroaki, Bush Warbler and Snowy Plum Tree, 1930s [source]; Yoshida Toshi, White Plum in the Farm Yard, 1951 [source]; Ito Sozan, Looking Out, early 20th c. [source]; Toyokawa Yoshikuni, Plum Tree at Night, early 20th c. [source]; Koho, Plum and the Moon, 1930s [source]; Tsuchiya Koitsu, Plum Warbler, 1940 [source]; Utagawa Hiroshige II, Plum Garden at Kameido, 1859 [source].

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How easily kindled, and how easily put out again, is the light of the firefly! (Anonymous; quoted after L. Hearn, Kotto, Being Japanese Curios with Sundry Cobwebs, Cosimo Classics, New York 2007, p. 159)

Fireflies play an exceptional role in Japanese culture; they illuminate the pages of the Tale of Genji and flicker here and there in small poetic forms. Whole excursions were made to see them glow in the darkness of night, hovering above the rivers and canals, and catching them was considered an entertaining pastime. In woodblock prints, they dialogue as equals with the light sifting through the windows and with the moon itself.  

Following the flickering light of the fireflies with (top to bottom, left to right): Tsukioka Kogyo, Fireflies, c. 1890–1900 [source]; Yamamoto Shoun, Firefly Hunting, early 20th c. [source]; Ito Sozan, Fireflies, c. 1900–1910 [source]; Watanabe Shoka, Fireflies [source]; Kobayashi Kiyochika, Fireflies at Ochanomizu, 1880 [source]; Kobayashi Kiyochika, Fireflies and Lighted House, 1930s [source]; Kobayashi Kiyochika, The Koromogawa River near Tennoji Temple, 1880 [source]; Takahashi Hiroaki, Fireflies, 1930s [source]; Utagawa Kunisada, Imaginary Scene of Actors Catching Fireflies: Jewels Shining in the Dark: Kataoka Gadō II, Ichikawa Kodanji IV (right); Iwai Kumesaburō III, Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (centre); Nakamura Fukusuke I, Bandō Takesaburō I (left), 1855 [source]. 

And if you want to read more about Japanese fireflies, [here] you will find a nice little text.  

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Audrey Hepburn by Peter Basch, Summer 1956.

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Audrey Hepburn for Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

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Behind the scenes photos of Audrey Hepburn and husband Mel Ferrer before going in front of a live television audience for their performance of Mayerling, February 4, 1957.

Mayerling featuring Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer is available on DVD.

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