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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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“Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume IV (1944-1947)

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Dancers of the Royal Ballet in Giselle — by Bill Cooper

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An Art Nouveau silver & plated fairy lamp Moritz Hacker circa 1905

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vivienne westwood heart gloves

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antique rose cuff bracelet

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“My silk nightdress […] supple as a garment of heavy water”

— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber

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Small white stalagmite in the shape of a virgin in the Combel room of the Pech Merle Cave (29,000 BP), Occitania, France

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To Be Alive Gregory Orr

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‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that kisses so gently (…); and perhaps it says Go sleep darlings, till the summer comes again.’

— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (Macmillan, 1871) (via Ina de Bree)

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Zoya Nazyalensky in Rule of Wolves (Leigh Bardugo)

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big fan of heart shaped things and hearts on things

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Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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Old 19th century books with marbled page edges