Hilyan

[undinesea]

Then I think of you in bed, your tongue half chocolate, half ocean,

Anne Sexton, “December 11th,” from Eighteen Days Without You

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I'm walking out now into the soft light, the cooling hum of evening, and I will love you tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and still many more, so very many more tomorrows.

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

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Model In The Artist’s Studio (detail) Adolphe La Lyre

[eymurn]

Even platonically, I love intensely.

[petaltexturedskies]

Jeanne Bôle, Jeune fille aux colombes, 19th century, private collection — detail

[inspirationpainting]

Claude Monet, Agapanthus, between 1914 and 1926, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Still Life with Roses and Decorative Elephant (detail), Marie Nyl-Frosch 

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Il canto della vergine (The Song of the Virgin), (Detail), (2015), by Roberto Ferri (Italian, born 1978), oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm (approximately 39.4 x 55.1 in), Private Collection

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[meliae]

Étienne Adolphe Piot

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Hans Gude (Norwegian, 1825–1903), "Fresh Breeze on the Norwegian Coast" (details), 1876

[7pleiades7]

Saint Sebastian, (Detail), (c. 1623), by Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1592 – 1656), oil on canvas, 101 × 117 cm (39.7 x 46 in), National Gallery, London

[hitku]

by Chen Huimin

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