quiet, yet wild. rough, and yet gentle

🌺 nosce te ipsum 🌺

[rababitsummer]

[petaltexturedskies]

Antonio Gómez Cros, The Birth of Venus (c. 1860) Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid — detail

[angelicdewdrop]

[heartcosmicsoul]

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

[angelicdewdrop]

[uboga]

Curved dagger (khanjar) with rock crystal hilt. India, 18th century

[chthonic-cassandra]

Interviewer: What difference in usage would you point out in these three languages [Russian, English, French], these three instruments?

Nabokov: Naunces. If you take framboise in French, for example, it's a scarlet color, a very red color. In English, the word raspberry is rather dull, with perhaps a little brown or violet. A rather cold color. In Russian it's a burst of light, malinovoe; the word has associations of brilliance, of gaiety, of ringing bells. How can you translate that?

- Vladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor. Bryan Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy, Eds.

[vintageeveryday]

Latin quarter of Paris, May 1968. Photographed by Édouard Boubat.

[pink-sapphire-rose-blog]

[antropofagis]

[equipebrasil]

"Se você for indicado, você já ganhou." Robert de Niro

[metamorphesque]

[cozyvu]

[desilusiona-da]

oh to be on the beach at late night

[crushedbug]

[quotespile]

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

— James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

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[bezsenn-osc]

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Jeanne Moreau by Agnès Varda, 1948