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Daguerreotype portrait of a woman named Mary Ann Bartlett posing with a stack of books, c. 1850′s.

Source: Library of Congress.

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- Victor Hugo

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Frank Cowper, Vanity, 1907

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Theda Bara in “Cleopatra”  (1917, a lost film)

Theda Bara made over 40 silent films between 1914 and 1926.  Most were destroyed in the 1937 Fox storage vault fire. Only four of her feature films and two comedy shorts remain intact.

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Leonardo da Vinci c. 1470-1476, Woman’s Head

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Find someone who hates hurting ur heart

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• Miss Hodges of Salem. Date: 1845–61 Photographer: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–62) Medium: Daguerreotype.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky ― The Brothers Karamazov

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Alethea (a study of Alice Liddell), 1872 Carbon print photography by Julia Margaret Cameron

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She’s left behind her a sweet scent of rose and lilac, and the feeling of two gentle kisses—

Fyodor Sologub, from “The Little Demon,”

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lana del rey on repeat during quarantine

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Princess with a spindle, Hanna Pauli, 1896

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…and all my soul blossomed like the spring.

Takis Papatsonis, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “To a Young Girl Brought Up in a Nunnery,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Toward midnight I left the boat of flowers and I saw the stars again.

Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Richard Howard, from “The Rock Garden,” (via violentwavesofemotion)