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[ancientsstudies]

And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

[hathwaye-deactivated20131012]

Alonso Miguel de Tovar (1678-1758), Doña Josepha Benavides, Marquise of Villena (detail), 1725

[rosesanguineum]

Red Moths

[seaymph]

“Trust the wait. Enjoy the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.”

— (via kindlykarlirose)

[bhodacious-deactivated20220401]

an emotionally intelligent partner >>>

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I heard a heart beating inside me that wasn’t mine.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “The Foreign Legion,”

[die-rosastrasse]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre

French, 1836-1911

[v-ersacrum]

Evelyn de Morgan, Night and Sleep (details), 1878

[happyheidi]

[polkadotmotmot]

Pei-Cheng Hsu - River No. 1, 2020

[widowisko44]

st. augustine by philippe de champaigne. detail.

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Forgive me for using only black & white but sadness seems sadder when told in color, a yellow shout of daffodils now gone with a hand that can no longer be held.”

— Greg Sellers, from “A Lament in Black & White,” lines found among a folder of lost, unfinished poems

[recordstore]

i don’t understand how anything works i just walk through life terrified

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“The shadows of late afternoon and the odors of honeysuckle are a congruent sadness. Everything is easy but wrong.”

— Robert Hass, from “Old Dominion,” Praise (Ecco, 1979)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Luna and Venus

[horrrifiction]

yes my feelings are valid but i don't want them

[stay-close]

I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow l am never healing.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters