Caffeinated Dragon In Law

21. Law student.

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Films I watched: 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 (1987) dir. James Ivory

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Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France

[leavemeslowly]

imagine all the libraries we have to visit when the lockdown ends...

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Rodney Smith

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Detail from Charles III as a boy in his study, Jean Ranc, ca. 1724.

[shisasan]

Edward Eggleston, Reaching for the Moon (1933)

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Mags Harries - The Fossil, 1982

[veinsofmantra]

Little Women 2019 // Alexander Averin

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“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.

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[thereaderpsy17-deactivated20200]

"The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified."

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Bookstore in London ruined by and air-raid 1940]

[kelseylorene]

Last Columns Standing. Temple of Apollo, Didyma, Turkey. 

[xshayarsha]

“Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) / aesthetic moodboad.

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Biblioteca do Palácio de Mafra // Library of Mafra’s National Palace

Finally got to see this beauty in person. Kind of bitter I couldn’t just reach out and open some of the books. The binding is so beautiful.  

[bvtterflybaby]

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, ‘I know this feeling. I was here before.’”

- Don DeLillo, White Noise