The Way to Know Life is to Love Many Things

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

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Detail of the ceiling of the drawing room in Castle Coch, Cardiff, Wales

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Francisco Goya - Boy Staring at an Apparition (1824)

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Ludwig Marold

Allegory with a Woman

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The Clash of the Titans by Gustave Dore, 1866

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In despair there is a void that yearns to be filled up. Let the night things fill it with their whisperings, and in this way grow wise in the secret ways of this world, and other worlds unknown to men.

Necronomicon - The Wanderings of Alhazred (via owls-love-tea)

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Details of Flowers part II (Part I)

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Milan Cathedral, steel-plate engravings published by J. Poppel. Leipzig, 1858. It took six centuries to complete the gothic building. Source

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The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green & Cie. .1901.

Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. “The Fairy of the Dawn”

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Fermette Marbeuf Restaurant. Paris

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Jost Amman, card deck, The Suite of Books, 1588. Nuremberg, Germany. Complete book: WDB

Amman is one of the most prolific illustrators of the 16th century. Born in Zurich in 1539, he preferred to follow his artistic inclination rather than becoming a scholar. In 1562 he settled in Nuremberg, His works include portraits, illustrations for books on various themes, ornamental designs, stained glass windows, jewelry. Despite his name became well-known, he never made a fortune, and in his late years he lived in poverty. He died in 1591, three years after having finished this deck. Source

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Tamaris - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1886-87)

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Night - Gustave Moreau (1880)

(via Night - Gustave Moreau - WikiArt.org)

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Muse on Pegasus - Odilon Redon (1900)

(via odilon_redon_002.jpg 2,536×3,255 pixels)

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Frenzy of Exultations (Szał uniesień) - Władysław Podkowiński (1893)

(via Podkowiński-Szał_uniesień-MNK.jpg 600×719 pixels)

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Odilon Rédon (French, 1840-1916)

Virgin with Halo, 1898

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Phaethom - Gustave Moreau

(via Phaethon - Gustave Moreau - WikiArt.org)

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Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, Detail (1477–1482)