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The Godfather: Part II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Albert Bierstadt - Nocturnal cloud study

Street in Paris by Edouard Castres - 1872

Crayfishing by Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky

Moonlight, Starlight, Atlantic Ocean by Frank Wilbert Stokes - 1902

Such kindness, one cannot help noticing.

Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life (Random House, February 21st 2017) (via dk-thrive)

How alive am I? How dead? How real is death?

Liv Ullmann, from Changing (via wishbzne)

Sometimes I wonder / if I’m really the best / person for this body.

— John Elizabeth Stintzi, from “Salutations From the Storm,” Junebat (via lifeinpoetry)

“Can I never escape this interminable mourning for myself?”

— Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964. (via xshayarsha)

Spring days smell of blurred memories–

Pentti Saarikoski, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “A Fortunate Time,” (via paper-fairy)

Anne Elizabeth Sobieski aka Anne-Elizabeth Sobieski (American, b. 1971, Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Single Twilight, 2005, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

If the dead are watching, I want them to see us writing, dancing, singing, painting. I want them to see that we still reach out to each other.

Richard Siken, Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone (via paper-fairy)

I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights (via paper-fairy)

I bow to the daydreams I buried myself in,

Hannu Mäkelä, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “Dream On Happiness Number 5,” (via paper-fairy)

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