The only story I‘ll ever be able to tell.

Art - Literature - Nostalgia

[devotedlyluckyarbiter]

Death is not an end for a soul whose story starts after death

[beforeviolets]

week 12

finishing off the semester with beautiful buildings and divine drinks 🤎

[reveuseinflorence]

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[mahoganyamore]

too much is never enough

[before-life]

Westminster Abbey, London, UK by Robert

[reveuseinflorence]

books upon books upon books

[old-paintings-revival]

The Gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome (1630) by Diego Velazquez

[burningvelvet]

I now begin a new year — may it be a happier one than the last unhappy one.

— From Mary Shelley's 1819 journal, Friday, December 31st.

[fictionalaffection]

[fictionalaffection]

there’s so much to read , that one life isn’t enough.

[daily-spooky]

[threeamserif]

instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

[fictionalaffection]

“to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all,”

[fictionalaffection]

you talk like a book.

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[charmedchapters]

the secret history

- donna tartt

[may-bb8]

nosce te ipsum

ig: @ mari_damulakis