[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Because I’ve seen the truth–it was not some invention of the mind; I saw it, I truly saw it, and know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing their capacity to live on the earth. I don’t want to believe, and can’t believe, that evil is man’s normal state.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by S. Koteliansky, from a diary entry featured in Pages from the Journal of an Author (via sonnywortzik)

[cair--paravel]

Costume for the King of the Ondines from a 1974 production of Ondine at the Comédie-Française, designed by Chloé Obolensky (via).

[connerys]

Cary Grant and Joan Bennett in Big Brown Eyes (1936)

[overcomings]

Beethoven to a t

[antigonick]

I am afraid to own a Body— I am afraid to own a Soul— Profound—precarious Property— Possession, not optional—

Emily Dickinson, “I am afraid to own a Body”, in Une Âme en Incandescence (via antigonick)

[ourwaytoescape]

Matthew Simmonds

[hemingsways-deactivated20230712]

I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten.

- Joel 2:25

[adventurelandia]

101 Dalmatians (1961)

[plansectionelevation]

The Belvedere Torso, Apollonious of Athens, 1st century BC

[overcomings]

ambitious, striving for the monumental

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

TREASURE PLANET (2002)

[overcomings]

I finished dear Anna.

[emmanuelleriva]

Wuthering Heights (1939) dir. William Wyler

[freshmoviequotes]

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

[weepforadonais]

“How to entangle, trammel up and snare your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there (…)?”

— John Keats, from Lamia.

[dostoyevsky]

Wandering souls (1920), first film adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, now lost, with Asta Nielsen.

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[paul-cooper]