Softly, Gently

Christina, 22, INFP, Capricorn. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this."

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“(…) her love never fierce: it was deep and tender.”

— Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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Victor Karlovich Shtemberg

Russian, 1863-1917

Portrait of S. M. Rayevskaya (detail)

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“I loved you in the morning; Our kisses deep and warm. Your hair upon the pillow Like a sleepy, golden storm.”

— Leonard Cohen (1934 - 2016)

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Auguste Leroux — Ballerine. detail. 1871-1954

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art meme: 3/? colors: rose

Frederic Leighton - Elijah in the Wilderness; Alphonse Mucha - Rose; John Singer-Sargent - Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children; François-Hubert Drouais - Portrait de Femme; François-Hubert Drouais - Madame du Barry; Anton Raphael Mengs - Maria Luisa of Parma; Edgar Degas - The Pink Dancer; Edward Robert Hughes - Juliette Gordon Low; Gustave Jean Jaquet - Portrait of a Lady

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“She was a gossamer fairy in shimmering rose.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Myra Meets His Family” (via

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Pearl buttons | sarahwillardcouture

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Charles Edward Perugini

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“Have you been eating rosebuds again? Where do your cheeks get their blush?”

— “Bright Star” (via okayodysseus)

[die-rosastrasse]

Émile Vernon

French, 1872-1920

Starlight (detail)

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Young Girl with a Basket of Flowers (Detail) - Renoir

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“Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea?”

— Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping (via wishbzne)

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George Hillyard Swinstead 

British, 1860-1926

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Abbott Fuller Graves “Doorway and Garden” (c. 1900)

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Princess Cecilie of Prussia, née Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (detail), 1908 by Caspar Ritter

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Guillaume Seignac — The Red Rose. detail. 1870-1924