Love, Sophia ♥

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

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The Tea Party - James Jebusa Shannon

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Polaroids by Wim Wenders

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Details of Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866–1868.

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Night - Pedro Americo

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Konstantin Somov, Lady in blue - Portrait of Ye.M. Martynova detail, ca. 1897-1900

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The Reluctant Bride (1866) by Auguste Toulmouche

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Jean-François Jalabert, Galatée (detail) 19th century

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Roger-Joseph Jourdain - Summertime in the Garden

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Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy by Simon Vouet c 1635

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“That's the girl who didn't take a shower since Kurt Cobain died.”

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Rosario Guerrero als Carmen - Friedrich August von Kaulbach

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"Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. The film is considered to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, and critics have praised it as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America."

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The Queen of Sheba - Hocine Ziani

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The Redhead - Angelo Asti

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That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via herpaperweight)