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𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠.

[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]

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, September 1953. 

[firstethicalpisces]

lounging around naked after you just showered and moisturized and perfumed is one of life’s many joys

[shisasan]

my life, my flight, my flow,  3 July 1926 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[drops-of-universe]

don’t play it cool, be passionate and insane

[mournfulroses]

T. S. Eliot, from his book titled"The Wasteland," originally published in December 1922