For My Love Of Dark Academia

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‘touching‘ shot by vassilis karidis for fantastic man, issue 30

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Money, Madness, Cocaine and Literary Genius: An Oral History of the 1980s' Most Decadent College

Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars--among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jon

How are you doing Dark Academia tumblr?

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Gothic Cloister gallery by Álvaro German Vilela

[theclassicssociety]

“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive”

-Donna Tartt ‘The Secret History’

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#History of # art # museum # travel #moodbaord

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Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)

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Une étudiante d'aujourd'hui (1966) dir. by Eric Rohmer

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Alessandro Magno

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Old books.

Palma. Mallorca.

[187o]

The past echoes in our souls. Our passion is a burning flame, eternal. Antiquity is a part of us.

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Eve Arnold, Art class, Chongqing, 1979

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THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt

Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

[lottystudies]

As a kid i would imagine my future self studying in domed buildings, surrounded by oceans of books and inked words.

[overcalm]

Art can be literally breathtaking. Sometimes it’s even hard to believe that men can create something so beautiful and perfect when they’re a complete mess themselves (at Rome, Italy)

Ig: @martaxpett