Unknown Pleasures

I am not young enough to know everything

[katharineshepburn-deactivated20]

“Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”

Her (2013), dir. Spike Jonze

[womanhouse]

did I tell you I got this fuckin tattooed on my arm? Her legs stick out of the right sleeve of my blouses.

[huariqueje]

Large lying nude with blue dressing gown   -   Coen van Oven ,c.1920.

Dutch, 1883-1963

Oil on canvas, 95 x 150 cm.

[mareamo]

[stckwll]

[bitch-tis-but-a-scratch]

“Never ignore your first instinct just because it isn’t what you want to believe.”

— William Chapman (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[timotaychalamet]

“What’s with the blood-red eyeshadow?”

“I don’t want to look kind-hearted.”

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) dir. Park Chan-wook

[timotaychalamet]

“I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

Bright Star (2009) dir. Jane Campion

[texturesandtextiles]

Vogue China, January 2007 Editorial: Queen of the Renaissance Model: Vlada Roslyakova Clothing: Jean Paul Gaultier Photographer: Pierluigi Maco

[everdayaesthetic]

quite possibly my favorite saying

[thepuppyclub]

untranslatable beautiful french idioms

ma petite patate: a term of endearment used for children, it carries the significance that the child must be protected, but that they are capable of growing in a cruel world. 

va niquer ta mère: the heart of a mother, encompassing the heart of her children.

ce seum: the nostalgia you feel when you realize you have missed out on a common experience. 

la flemme: the impossibility of moving one’s limbs due to inexplicable sorrow.

bien fait pour ta gueule: the feeling of being slapped in the face by circumstances that are out of one’s control.

avoir de la merde dans les yeux: to be blinded by love.

faire le buzz: to feel validated once one’s peers recognize one’s hard work, along with admitting that a great part of success comes from chance.

être un crevard: to decay in the pursuit of love, leaving a piece of one’s heart behind one as one desperately looks for love.

être un fragile / […] de fragile: to be vulnerable in situations where vulnerability is frowned upon. 

être chaud pour faire quelque chose: to have warmth spread around one’s body in the anticipation of doing something with friends. 

se faire iech de ouf: to feel the coldness of death as boredom slows down time and space. 

[mamie-caro]

nan mais allô: the overwhelming realization of the absurdity of our existence

[pardonmyfrench-bitch]

Aller se faire enculer : to go on a spiritual journey of self-discovery in order for oneself to be more open to the possibility of unconditional love.

[ofwoodsandwaves]

va voir ailleurs si j’y suis : the process of searching for the meaning of one’s life in the most unlikely places

[zephyroh]

je me suis fait biter : feeling helpless and powerless in a situation you feel cheated upon

[ribstongrowback]

Je m’en bats les couilles : having reached such a state of inner peace that the current situation cannot harm you emotionally.

Un branleur / une branleuse : A person allocating a fair amount of time to self-care.

C’est l’jeu ma pov’ Lucette : A friendly reminder of the harshness of life, and that one should never let difficulties overwhelm them.

C’est pas faux : Used to subtly hint your confusion regarding the matters at hand.

[astraera]

@prcserpina @asteriea

[polykowiak]

JPP (J'en peux plus !) : the feeling of being overhelmed by something and of being unable to handle anything anymore ; often said when joking

[wordscanbeenough]

…then she, heaving a sigh, thinks to herself, ‘If only someone could give me… if I could give someone…’ But she does not know what she wants to give, nor who could give it her.

Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (via wordscanbeenough)

[duxuebing]

Kniolas Black Night

Photography by Xuebing DU

[mxdvs]

Yosuke Onishi

[theimpossiblecool]

“True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.”

Isabella Rossellini.

[artessenziale]

The Birth Of Venus in art (details) by François Boucher (1740), Henri Pierre Picou (1874), Sandro Botticelli (1485), William Adolphe Bouguereau (1879), Nicolas Poussin (1635 or 1636), Alexandre Cabanel (1863)

[powderblueee]