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Détail de la 19e siècle papier peint dans la bibliothèque au château de Dunster avec stimulé en cuir gaufré bleu connu comme Cordelova

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Botticelli, Detail of The Mystical Nativity, ca. 1500-01

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Francesc Masriera - Winter, 1882 (detail), oil on canvas

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They said: "time heals" but dostoevsky said, "one never forgets the taste of certain tears."

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Valentine Cameron Prinsep - "The Lady With The Owl"

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Basically me

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The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).

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There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.

Virginia Woolf