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Miami City Ballet Dancers with Shimon Ito in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Choreography by George Balanchine. Photographer: Gene Schiavone.

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Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

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Anya Taylor-Joy (Vogue: In the Bag, 2021)

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Reading in nature

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Crashing Waves (Abbott Fuller Graves)

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“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Portrait of Sofia Andreyevna Shuvalova by Karl Brulov (detail)

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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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"Nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path which leads to himself."

- Demian, Hermann Hesse

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Audrey Hepburn: War and Peace (1956)

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“Water Nymph” by Joseph Bernard (aka Hans Zatzka)

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“Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, life living upon death. So the fair show veiled one vast, savage, grim conspiracy of mutual murder, from the worm to man, who himself kills his fellow; seeing which - the hungry ploughman and his labouring kine, their dewlaps blistered with the bitter yoke, the rage to live which makes all living things strife -”

— ‘The Light of Asia’ by Sir Edwin Arnold

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“If life be aught, the saviour of a life owns more the living thing than he can own who sought to slay - the slayer spoils and wastes, the cherisher sustains.”

— ‘The Light of Asia’ by Sir Edwin Arnold