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did Cupid's arrow pierce my temples instead of my heart?

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Hello! I'm Nicole🌷

32 | Infj | ♑ | Italy

Welcome to my photo journal (mostly bookish things and life bits)

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where else to find me:

@someforbiddenparadise (quotes)

• instagram

• substack (my precious baby!)

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“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”

— Nicollò Machiavelli  (via circumarticulation)

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Lately 🫐

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Found this beautiful vintage edition and completely losing myself in it. It’s a collection of 'Scapigliatura milanese' short stories (essentially the 19th-century Italian answer to the French bohemian and gothic literary movements). Dark, rebellious, and absolutely brilliant. 🥀

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Italian Gothic reading list 🥀

(20+ books for you, enjoy!)

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Finally in my hands...

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Made some progress! There's still much to do...but at least I am finally able to see the floors. 😂

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Man and Woman, (1912-1915),Edvard Munch

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Right in the middle of cleaning, unpacking boxes, finding new spots for things, and getting settled into the new place. I’ll show it to you soon…right now it’s still total chaos! 😅 (Don't worry, I don't wear this to clean, but I was about to head out and snapped a quick photo to capture the drama.)

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“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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such a great selection of love poems, I'm loving every one of them 🥀

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current reads 📚

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Sunday 🥀

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a reading list for chaotic times and dismantled houses 🥀

(25+ books, enjoy!)

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On a dreary June day that didn’t seem to promise anything good…Malombra by Antonio Fogazzaro arrived. Yes, my new love. Started yesterday...and already “it has bewitched me body and soul”.

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fragments from Plainwater by Anne Carson 🥀

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still savoring A Lover's Discourse 🥀