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fall on me like the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes a loftier course through purer stratum. 

[jazbaaati]

There’s a thin sheet of glass between me and life. However clearly I see and understand life, I can’t touch it.

- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.

[artist-lautrec]

Woman Brushing Her Hair, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/woman-brushing-her-hair

[artist-bouguereau]

Irene, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-adolphe-bouguereau/irene-1897

[books-n-quotes]

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via books-n-quotes)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski, 1971)

[merciemadame]

[philosophybits]

“The people to be the most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.”

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via quotespile)

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📷 by giorgiobaroniph

[artist-gericault]

Portrait of Eugene Delacroix, Theodore Gericault

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/theodore-gericault/portrait-of-eugene-delacroix-1819

[kvnai]

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden at Hanami. Tokyo, Japan.

[europeanarchitecture]

St.Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, Austria  (by ott1004)

[die-rosastrasse]

Godesses of night in paintings part 2.

Jules Louis Machard (French, 1839-1900) 

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (French, 1774-1833)

Carl Schweninger, Jr. (Austrian, 1854-1903) 

[part 1.]

[artist-davinci]

Multi Barrel Gun, Leonardo Da Vinci

https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/multi-barrel-gun

[met-africa-oceania]

Mask, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Wood (cedar), paint, metal, leather

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/312237

[books-n-quotes]

“I loved her. Not simply, certainly not passively, but clearly, specifically; I loved her…She was kind but would not accept confusion. She was beautifully warm… Her heart was coloured by a deep gentleness; She was true.”

— Robert Creeley, For Diane

[madamelesfressange]

                                            Nobility And Dignity

[books-n-quotes]

“Torment yourself as little as possible, then you’ll torment me less.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena