A tragic inclination for beauty

26 she/her "El arte justifica mi existencia"

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Life from Death by Mira Johanna Väänänen

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Philosophy by Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019

Ideal by Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019

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Johnny Cash’s letter to his wife June on her 65th birthday

Source: Mirror.co.uk

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Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister's House”, A Thousand Mornings

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— I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin (translated by A.Z. Foreman)

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Vincent van Gogh, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art

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[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

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most used nouns in homer #handtheory

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Judith mit dem Haupt des Holofernos; Theodor Hildebrandt

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The Rocks, Oil on Canvas, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. [1300 x 1111]

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In another life I would have loved to poison the abusive husbands of the women in my village

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Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

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The Rotten Cherry dress by Dilara Findikoglu s/s (2026)

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Katherine Mansfield, in a diary entry dated 14 October 1922, from Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield

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Shield of Achilles by Philip Rundell, originally modeled and cast in plaster by John Flaxman

English, 1821-1822

Silver-gilt convex shield

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by George IV and displayed at his coronation banquet)