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Tomás Sánchez (Cuban, b. 1948), Luz de una tarde de tormenta [Light of a stormy afternoon], 1990. Oil on canvas,  22 x  28 in.

[oldwinesoul]

// Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

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wood engraving today

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Albert Camus, The Fall

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You can be free and still come home

[achillesinhighheels]

When you recognize the beauty in loss and the love in letting go

[iamloverintherye]

🪴

[inlovewiththemooon]

Masochism of the Pure

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“I had been a girl who felt lost, this was true. All the hopes of youth seemed to have been destroyed, I seemed to be falling backwards towards my mother, my grandmother, the chain of mute or angry women I came from. Missed opportunities.”

— Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

[cosmonautroger]

Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under The Influence, John Cassavetes, 1974

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a play titled "Caligula," featured in Caligula & Three Other Plays

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Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

[miamaimania]

by Alessandro Sanna

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,