The Anatomy of Melancholy

From the moment we are born, we begin to die. ☾  ·  ⋆｡˚✩

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I gathered these fragments where the light forgets itself —

in the deep forest, in the blue hour, under the quiet watch of the moon, in the soft weight of things already gone;

gave them form, then left them here

☾ Echoes

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Carina Nebula by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

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Schiaparelli

Fall 2025 Haute Couture

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Katherine Mansfield, in a diary entry dated 14 October 1922, from Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield

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Springtime (1873) by Pierre-Auguste Cot

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Cezary Bodzianowski’s Crystal Tulpe: A Minimalist Marvel of 1996

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kissing your forehead because i love your weird brain

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"Kevin the Kitten" animation by Jenni Pasanen based on the original painting by Vanessa Stockard

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“The world is my representation.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

It exists elsewhere, now; in another form.

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by Robin Isely

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The revealing arm (Les bras révélateur) by Paul Nougé  (c. 1929-30)

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All Hallowe'en (1895) by John Collier

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The Human Condition & Serbian Mythology (book illustrations) by Dragan Bibin

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Wolves in the mist by David Batchelor

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Connor McManus

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Bronze fountain sculptures by Małgorzata Chodakowska