You make sin look so holy

  I am a prisoner of a fairy-tale.My own softness chokes me.  

[aestheticperversion]

“So much I gazed – So much I gazed on beauty, that my vision overflows with it. Contours of the body. Red lips. Voluptuous limbs. Hair as if taken from greek statues; always beautiful, even when uncombed, and it falls, slightly, over pale foreheads. Figures of love, as my poetry desired them…. in the nights of my youth, in my nights, secretly, met….”

— Constantine P. Cavafy (1917)

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mirte maas in grey a/w ‘09 photographed by wendy bevan

[soracities]

“When I love I become liquid light”

— Nizar Qabbani, from “When I Love” (via oiseauperdu)

[cosechadehuellas]

Black Napkin

[soulsauce]

[micaceous]

[mirbeau]

[aestheticperversion]

Lands of Emptiness A (detail) by Noriko Ambe

2003 Cuts on Housho-shi Paper 43 x 31 x 5 7/8 inches 109.1 x 78.8 x 15 cm

[aestheticperversion]

“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”

— Marguerite Duras (L’amant)

[aestheticperversion]

“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes!”

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

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“courtly gestures” photographed by mario testino for vogue uk december ‘93

[aestheticperversion]

“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.”

— ricky fitts in american beauty (1999)

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Paris, Février 1999 by Édouard Boubat

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tilda swinton in “caravaggio”, dir. derek jarman (1986)

[aestheticperversion]

““Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.””

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[scarymansion]

Zeit Magazin July 2013

[aestheticperversion]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

— Marianne Williamson, Return to Love 

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Bruno Dayan