california sweetheart

brianna ✧1995✧San Diego✧ twitter/ig:lilcatlady_

[lilcatlady]

como la flor ‎♡‧₊˚

[driflloon]

blumarine ss06

[erotiquadoll]

my fav blumarine underwear fall winter 04 lookz ❤︎︎

[laurapetrie]

“I long to have pretty lingerie, dozens of little dresses, books — and roses, roses, roses.”

— Anais Nin, 1920

[theroning]

Sharon Tate during a photoshoot in the 60s.

[driflloon]

carlos miele ss06

[driflloon]

cavalera ss06

[oiuzozuzoui-deactivated20200615]

[coutured-archived]

john galliano spring 2018

[framboisedorleac]

La fille aux yeux d'or (1960)

[coquette-club]

bambiiliana

[princessofwallachia]

[facingaltars]

Marian Marsh in The Black Room (1935) xx

[funeral]

We live in a mysterious world that does not fully explain itself. We occupy a time and a place that seemingly lies between two eternities. Nevertheless, through some unfathomable benediction beyond the known self, we have the power to create a life both within and beyond ourselves, to transfigure the image of the self, and to transcend a world not of our making into a world that we ourselves have created, given meaning to, and lived. There is an element of mystery to human origins and there is an element of the secret behind the true nature of the universe that we may never fully fathom; but there must also be a revelatory source of knowledge to enlighten the dark mysteries that surround us and there must be a corresponding means of perfection as the true path to fulfillment.

John Herlihy, Borderlands of the Spirit: Reflections on a Sacred Science of Mind

[iiumz]

[shisasan]

August 16, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[liebesfraulein]

The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded.

— Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O...