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𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠.

[anitapallenberg]

Delta of Venus (1995) | Dir. Zalman King

[philosophybits]

“When you fully enter the realm of love, this broken world becomes rich and beautiful, and consists solely of opportunities for love.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

[shisasan]

excess of feeling and imagination, the overflowing,

July 9, 1923 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[milkandheavysugar]

Famed opera singer, and mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry (1967)

[fancyemmabovary]

Viktor and Rolf Bonbon hair mist

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn at a UNICEF benefit, 1991. Photography by Tom Gates

[ashstfu]

buying books isn’t enough i need to actually read them

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[saintvincentandthegrenadines]

I hope my blog is a lush garden of images and concepts

[miamaimania]

Two men peer from a window unlatched in a giant beauty billboard — photograph by studioreko

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of The Prince and The Showgirl, 1957.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe in the “Evening Dress” sitting, Los Angeles, California, September 1953. Photo by Milton Greene.

[sartorialadventure]

From the Daily Mirror, 1914. The curse of the moving waistline....

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "When it’s unbearable," (edited) featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

[roua-poemului]

“I yearn for the violence of passion.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947.

[diamondsarefriends]

Marilyn Monroe filming The Seven Year Itch, 1955.

[overclassy]