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“Christmas Eve in the Hofburg in Vienna”, by Franz Kollarž, 1879. From left to right: Archduchess Marie Valerie, Emperor Franz Josef I, Crown Prince Rudolf, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Gisela Princess of Bavaria (née Archduchess of Austria) and Empress Elisabeth.

Via the Wien Museum

soft-lovely

sunday afternoon

illustratus

The Charles Bridge at dawn, Prague, Czech Republic

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The Night before the Exam by Leonid Pasternak, 1895

alex51324

I like how recognizable this 19th century cram session is. Especially the guy who’s just sitting there with a book, staring into the middle distance and smoking. You’d be better off getting some sleep, at this point, my dude!

hamletthedane

“You should be at the club” I should be sent to the seaside for my heath

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Instagram credit: comewithkris

#I miss Prague so much #take me back please

existential-celestial

“Yet for all its coldness, there’s a tenderness in winter too, making us cover what we can no longer bare.”

— Carole Glasser Langille, from “Next Month Snow,” In Cannon Cave (Brick Books, 1997).

peacefulandcozy

Instagram credit: danielapardor

christmas-winter

ashstfu

i was going to learn 12 languages, read 250 books and learn 75 new skills this year what happened

lifemaniac91

spiced-wine-fic

The willow woman.

Photo taken by The Henge Shop, Avebury.

flowerytale

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

notebookist

went to the used & rare bookstore downtown to buy one book for my friend, and came back with all of these beauties. i cannot be trusted around old books.