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[𝐬𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲]

[launien]

[m00wd]

A person raised in love and another raised in survival, will never see the world the same way.

—M00wd

[beruhigdichmal-deactivated20260]

!!!

[cottaegecore]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Louise Colet (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[fromtheheather]

The Ecstasy of the Magdalen (c. 1616-1620) - Giulio Cesare Procaccini

[mournfulroses]

D. H. Lawrence, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

[the-evil-clergyman]

Dejanira (Autumn) by Gustave Moreau (1872-73)

[mothprincess]

Mary Oliver, from The Journey

[venustapolis]

An enchanted garden (Thomas Edwin Mostyn, 1923)

[theinternetarchive]

etching and drypoint illustrations by anders zorn, swedish c. 1910s.

[simena]

Edmund Marriner Gill

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

[twirld]

Castle by the River (detail) Karl Friedrich Schinkel

[petaltexturedskies]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[inkpressedpetals]

[twirld]

Flora (detail, 1559) Jan Massys

[shisasan]

April 13, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973