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[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "As unforgettable as you’re forgetful," featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

[feral-ballad]

Ana Božičević, from Rise in the Fall; “Anxiety of Influence”

[feral-ballad]

Cecilia Woloch, from Carpathia; “Fireflies”

[most4rdently]

“My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners – my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?”

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

[bebs-art-gallery]

Maria Anna of Bavaria (1842) by Joseph Karl Stieler | Queen Henrietta Maria (1638) by Anthony Van Dyck | Chen Jiang Tao’s 3D Rendering of The Unequal Marriage by Vasily Pukirev | The Play Thing (1897) by Vittorio Matteo Corcos

[7pleiades7]

Young Beauty in a Green Dress, (detail), (19th century), by Gustave Jean Jacquet (French, 1846 –1909), oil on canvas, Private Collection

[arugulalover]

PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

[frontmansdog]

there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

[weltenwellen]

Marie Howe, from “Memorial”, What the Living Do

[7pleiades7]

Young Woman Fastening a Letter to the Neck of a Pigeon, (detail), (c. 1760) attributed to Johann Christian von Mannlich (German, 1741 – 1822)

[boltlightning]

For a brief moment, Norrington breaks into a wide, boyish smile. His military bearing reasserts itself, but only just. ➢ PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) // accepting the proposal

[specialagentartemis]

more windows should be stained glass. Just in general

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ John Robert Dicksee, For You, Miss (detail)

via wikimedia commons

[mournfulroses]

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

[consumerofthedivine-deactivated]

Beauty beyond human comprehension

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[sidneysheldon]

Sidney Sheldon, “The Sands of Time”