Vivere est cogitare

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[shirkerss]

[1five1two]

‘Eternity’. Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis. 1906.

[thunderstruck9]

Paul Henry (Irish, 1876-1958), Pegasus, c.1906. Woodcut, 7¼ x 10½ in. Unique

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Elsa la rose (Agnès Varda, 1966)

[periodedits]

I don’t care what I see outside. My vision is within!  Here is where the birds sing! Here is where the sky is blue!

A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1985) dir. James Ivory

[a-state-of-bliss]

Amber Valletta & Shalom Harlow @ Valentino Haute Couture Spr/Sum 1996

[metamorphesque]

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)

[metamorphesque]

embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

[nuovocparadiso]

Le Bonheur (1965). dir. Agnès Varda.

[galina-ulanova]

Konstantin Zverev as Count Vronsky, and Oksana Skorik as Anna Karenina, in Anna Karenina (Mariinsky Ballet)

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[thestandrewknot]

Romy with Alain.

[tammy17tummy]

[thestandrewknot]

Jean Patchett photographed Irving Penn for Vogue February 1949.

[nobrashfestivity]

Barbara Hammer, Sanctus, 1990

Film

[glassribbon]

Scenes from a marriage. Scene 1: Innocence and panic (Liv Ullmann, Ingmar Bergman)

[cinematicjourney]

L'Avventura (1960) | dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

[vjeranski]

Salomé Wu b. 1996 Where the Long Shadows Fall — The Lovers, 2020 Oil on canvas 60 1/5 × 36 1/5 in 153 × 92 cm