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We live the strangeness of being momentary, and still we are exalted by being temporary. […] It is the fact of being brief, being small and slight that is the source of our beauty. We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of cosmos.

Jack Gilbert, from “The Manger of Incidentals,” Refusing Heaven: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

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THE GODFATHER dir. Francis Ford Coppola | 1972

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Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

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dramatize fantasize romanticize ....

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Venus Verticordia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1868)

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La nuit du phoque (1974), dir. Jean-Jacques Birgé & Bernard Mollerat

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Lois Lammerhuber

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The Anger of Achilles (detail), c. 1819. Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)

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Sailboats at Sunset by Mauritz Frederik Hendrik de Haas (1832-1895)

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Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Fields after the Rain, 1890, oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

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Gabriela 1983

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Ancient tombs in Hijaz, Saudi Arabia, circa 1947.

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Bird detail, House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii, c. 30-35 AD. Photographer: Carlo Raso, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

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“Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, sweet garden of a thousand years ago,”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems of E. S. V. M.; “Interim,”

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Behind the scenes of Charles Leclerc’s photoshoot for L’Officiel Italia with the Ferrari 250 SWB at Le Cap Estel 5* Hotel

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La dolorosa (Jean Grémillon, 1934)