A mind lively and at ease

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[dappledwithshadow]

Lilies, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎  Japanese, 1760-1849

[usernostalgiacore]

BARBIE AS RAPUNZEL (2002)

[philosophybits]

“The world would be much happier, if men were as fully able to keep silence as they are able to speak.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[enchanted-keys]

Akane Takada and Ryoichi Hirano in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet 2019)

[manny-jacinto]

@ timothée chalamet

BILLY ELLIOT (2000) dir. Stephen Daldry

[medievalpoc]

Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Huang Ya Dong UK (1776)

Huang Ya Dong (known in England as Wang-y-Tong) was brought to England from China around 1770, by the naturalist John Bradby Blake (1745-1773), owing to the former’s knowledge of Chinese plants and culture. As a result, Huang became somewhat of a minor celebrity in English intellectual circles in the 1770s; he visited the Royal Society in 1775 and is known to have advised Josiah Wedgewood (1730-1795) about the production of Chinese porcelain, and to have explained the principles of acupuncture to the Physician Andrew Duncan (1744-1828). By the time this portrait was painted, Wang-y-Tong had entered the household at Knole, working as a page to the Duchess of Dorset. He was subsequently educated at Sevenoaks School. A later drawing of the sitter is in the British Museum. 

-National Trust Collection

[sanellydicarmens]

THE MUSKETEERS 1.08 | “The Challenge”

[comfortblr]

Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

[todayintokyo]

The reader by Ichijō Narumi

[poirott]

Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple → Fave outfits in Season 1

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MARPLE (2004 - 2013)

[thirdity]

“When I recite Shakespeare, my father is living in me. The people who have heard me will live in my voice, which is a reflection of a voice that was, perhaps, a reflection of the voice of its elders. The same may be said of music and of language. Language is a creation, it becomes a kind of immortality. I am using the Castilian language. How many dead Castilians are living within me?”

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Immortality”

[balletroyale]

Akane Takada and Ryoichi Hirano in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet) 

[rogers-carter]

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE 2005 | dir. Andrew Adamson

[hsm2]

Gwen in Merlin Season 4 Episode 9

[huariqueje]

Late Evening , July - Victoria Crowe 

Scottish, b. 1945 -

Ink, wash, gold leaf & acrylic , 98 x 60.5 cm.

[useless-catalanfacts]

The oldest door of València'a cathedral, known as Porta de l'Almoina or Porta de Palau. It's easily recognisable because, being the oldest part of the building, it was built in the Romanesque style. Most of the cathedral was built in Gothic style, with some Baroque additions centuries later.

Photo by artfolch on Instagram.

[kameliendame]

Natalia Osipova and Ryoichi Hirano in rehearsal for Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling

ph. Andrej Uspenski