Estela

The god of man is a failure

[noitesoturna]

"Sabe, Virgínia, vejo Laura como aquele espelho despedaçado: a gente pode ir lá no fundo e colar os cacos, mas tudo então que ele vier a refletir, o céu, as árvores, as pessoas, tudo, tudo estará como ele próprio, partido em mil pedaços."

Ciranda de Pedra, de Lygia Fagundes Telles.

[museum-of-artifacts]

(via Viking sword and battleaxe from Langeid, Norway. 11th century AD [3200x1800] : ArtefactPorn)

[theoptia]

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959; May 13th, 1959

[goth-queen]

[autumnal-crypt]

[frostedmagnolias]

Pendant

c. 1900

by Eugène Grasset (designer) & Maison Vever (jeweler)

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[s-h-o-w-a]

Japanese woman rests on a takamakura (tall pillow), 1930s

[treasures-and-beauty]

Evening Dress - Hungarian - Madame Eta Hentz - 1944

[noitesoturna]

It's 2026 and I just felt ridiculous for being at my home instead of having some fun...

[madam-sl33pyhead]

Gabrielle Ray Joan of Arc Shoot (1909)

[randomvintageeurope]

[ducissatenebrarum]

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

The world want to be deceived, therefore let it be deceived

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

Historical undergarments (details)

[noitesoturna]

Sickness can surely take the mind

Where minds can't usually go

[obseo-deactivated20120320]

我見過華麗的夜景 (by marcma / 馬克馬 /)

[vintage-tigre]

[noitesoturna]

"Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die."

— from 'The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath', diary entry no. 8, July 1950