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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“My anxious heart is eating up my body, eating up my nerves, eating up my brain.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in “Journals,” c. June 1915

[charnel-grounds]

Isabella Morton (1847–1937), “Why, Soul of a Woman, so restless and disturbed.”

illustration from “A Fantasy of Souls” by Mary Washington Smith McLaughlin (as Margaret Irving), 1912

source

[funeral]

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression ‘metaphysical exile’ had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.”

—

Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jane Hirshfield

[1264doghouse]

[pmamtraveller]

Alix Appearing to the Mask (c. 1891) by Tony Robert-Fleury

[aurorasholy]

Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night

[leseptiemecoeur]

Church inside a cave in Vardzia

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Eva Green (2011)

© Paolo Roversi

[bebemoon]

“The nature of erotic things is secrecy, otherwise they lose their spell.”

— Björk (via laudanumat33)

[detournementsmineurs]

[the1920sinpictures]

1926 c. Wedding portrait of an Argentinian Couple. From Art Deco and Art Nouveau, FB.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Hesse and her daughter Princess Elisabeth Marie Alice Viktoria of Hesse

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1903

[gothish]

by Stefan Baumann

[frostedmagnolias]

Brooch

c. 1832

Gold, enamel, hair

Albany Institute of History & Art

[funeral]

Joanna Frueh, Erotic Faculties

[charnel-grounds]

Georg Erler (1871–1950), “Death and the Maiden”

etchings, c. early 20th century — source