Glass Bowl

21| "No one can stay till the last forever."

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954)

[youth-happiness]

““I always knew. That it was too good to be true. That it couldn’t last. That life isn’t like that, life isn’t generous. You mustn’t love someone. You mustn’t become attached to someone. Life begrudges you that. It takes everything away from you and it laughs in your face. It betrays you.””

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[marionelize]

[lifeismymiracle]

[imjacksfilmclub]

American Beauty (1999)

dir. Sam Mendes

But it’s so hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.

[lonelycigs]

― American Beauty (1999) “Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it… and my heart is just going to cave in.”

[mcavoy]

I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.

American Beauty dir. Sam Mendes 

[hirxeth]

American Beauty (1999) dir. Sam Mendes

[notlikethemoviess]

American Beauty (1999) dir. Sam Mendes

[film-psycho]

Mena Suvari as Angela Hayes American Beauty (1999) dir. Sam Mendes

[crisantedavide]

AMERICAN BEAUTY Sam Mendes 1999

[marmarinos]

Detail of Raffaelo Monti’s Veiled Lady, dated to c. 1860. Marble. Currently located in the Minneapolis Institute of Art. 

[antoniettabrandeisova]

The roses of Heliogabalus (detail) 1888. Lawrence Alma-Tadema

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Psyche in the Temple of Love (detail) 1882. Edward John Poynter

[akcanzi]

Marble delicacy

Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria - Roma

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[lionofchaeronea]

Offering to Flora, Juan van der Hamen, 1627

[outerground]

Rodin’s famous sculpture, The Kiss is often mistaken for it’s similarity to his other great figure pair Eternal Springtime. (top)  Easily distinguishable by Eternal Springtime’s outreaching arm