Secrets

As for that story there are many versions. The best one though is always the one where you cry. (Tasos Leivaditis, "Aesthetics")

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"I Had Myself No Power To Move From The Upright Position I Had Assumed"

From: 'The Assignation, Tales of Mystery and Suspense' by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by Harry Clarke 1933.

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"Lenore" by Edgar Allan Poe From the edition "The Bells and Other Poems" (1912) Illustrator: Edmund Dulac

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he had a distant sense that all this optimism was also morbid - fyodor dostoyevsky, from "crime and punishment"

source: pinterest

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“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

— Walter Benjamin

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Star like solitude

~Dearest regards Pigeon-post-office

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Mo.Ning 😘☕️🪷

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Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896. Amour : manuscript, 1873-1886.

MS Fr 139.4

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Winged feminine figure by Adolfo Apolloni

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Patrick James Errington, They Don't Make Gods for Non-Believers

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Wisp, Your Face

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Philosopher in Meditation (1632) by Rembrandt

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Starlight by Émile Vernon (1872–1920), detail