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[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

[1five1two]

'Village at Dusk'. Émile Breton. 1886.

[pearlimbo]

Leonor Fini, The Angel of Anatomy (1949)

[dailyclassicart]

Franz Ludwig Catel - "Monks in a monastery courtyard" (1856)

[venustapolis]

Thro’ the Wood (John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836 - 1893)

[louisegluck]

Sylvia Plath, from “Poem for a Birthday: Witch Burning.” [ID in alt text]

[bebs-art-gallery]

A Procession of Flagellants

— by Francisco de Goya

[charnel-grounds]

Alfonso Simonetti (1840–1892), “And She Never Returned”

oil on canvas, n.d.

source

[imnotonherebyebye]

[daily-art-academy]

The Kiss of the Sphinx

Franz von Stuck, 1895

Oil on canvas, 160 x 144,8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

[classicdavinci]

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium (1881)

[lilllium]

— J. Allyn Rosser, from Sugar Dada

[biancacanlove]

"What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss.

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

[the-lost-lamb]

The Kiss 1909.

[eyres]

Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.

[louisegluckpdf]

i love how in every other chapter of jane eyre she's like "do not get me wrong this guy is NOT hot. in fact he's actually a bit ugly. here are a list of his physical defects in order from least to most glaring. i still kinda think he's cute though 🥰"