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a softness came from the starlight, and filled me full to the bone 

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some of my favorite animal miniatures from nypl spencer coll. pers. ms. 49, a 16th century copy of zakariya al-qazwini's 13th century the wonders of creatures and the marvels of creation.

[museiums]

annie steg gerard

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Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, Memoirs of Martynov

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Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight (1862 / edited) - Frederik Marinus Kruseman

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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1: (1931-1934)

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Warwick, England

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by n4ny4r

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[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry wr. c. June 1925, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III: 1925-1930

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[centuriespast]

A miniature book made by Charlotte Brontë at age 13, one of more than two dozen she created. It recently surfaced after being considered lost for more than a century.

Credit…Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

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A Man embracing a Woman, Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Luteri), ca. 1525 (detail)

[detectivehole]

"why do you know that" i am curious about the world around me

[dreamstars]

[venus-garden]

late summer charm

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Watercolor illustration from The Bells and other poems - Edmund Dulac - 1912 - via Sotheby's