per aspera ad astra

forgive me, for the things i did but mostly for the ones that i did not.

[lovrwilde]

𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐦.𝐥. 𝐫𝐢𝐨

“𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮.”

[najadaz]

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[trovadora-de-versos]

If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure. - Mary Shelley, Mathilda

[therealrichardpapen]

[queenmoriarty]

À moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.

~Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[macrolit]

from ml.books

[macrolit]

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway and an Antique Books candle from Old Castle Candles

[the-evil-clergyman]

Hylas and the Water Nymphs by Henrietta Rae (1909)

[trainstationgoodbye]

Don’t regret. Remember. Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 dir. Céline Sciamma

[asacredeer]

the thing abt dps is we’re really just watching a movie abt teenage boys and lots of us are going through similar things and like pitts and meeks dancing on the roof listening to the radio is probably such an insignificant moment for them at the moment but to some of us that’s like wow look at them being teens and having fun and that’s so!! that’s like real life. all these moments we’re going through and we don’t even realize they’ll be key memories for us! sorry if this doesn’t make sense it just came to me and i had to write it down

[huariqueje]

Still Life with Candle   -   Unknown

Oil on canvas

[templeofapelles]

Johann Zoffany Self-portrait, 1761 (detail)

[scrunklyyokkie]

[bladesrunner]

#Donna Tartt discussing The Goldfinch is a form of art itself

[bluebeardsbride-deactivated2021]

“Dionysus is a god who takes human form, a powerful male who looks soft and feminine, a native of Thebes who dresses as a foreigner. His parentage is mixed between divine and human; he is and is not a citizen of Thebes; his power has both feminine and masculine aspects. He does not merely cross boundaries, he blurs and confounds them, makes nonsense of the lines between Greek and foreign, between female and male, between powerful and weak, between savage and civilized. He is the god of both tragedy and comedy, and in his presence the distinction between them falls away, as both comedy and tragedy…”

— Paul Woodruff, The Bacchae (Translated and Annotated) 

[toindeedbepretentious]

[tkkatherineblog]