Beautiful Things

The cult of elegance, beauty & grace 

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I was your starry-eyed lover and the one that you saw I was your hurricane rider and the woman you'd call We were just two moonshiners on the cusp of a breath And I've been burning for you baby since the minute I left

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Paul by Big Thief

Good for dancing, slow and close.

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“You are Mucha already.”

Luka

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Daughter

Fossa

Love

No Care

Landfill

Smother

All I Wanted

To Belong

Alone/With You

How

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“But no single map of the emotions is available here. Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling (mignumi) and desire melts the limbs (lusimeles, cf. Sappho fr. 130). Boundaries of body, categories of thought, are confounded. The god who melts limbs proceeds to break the lover as would a foe on the epic battlefield.”

Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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But I still wonder, Why You left with her And left me behind

Take your hands off him 'Cause he's the only one that I Have ever loved

Love – Daughter

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Press Play to Weep

Touch – Shura 

Never Gonna Love Again – Lykke Li

Undercover – Susanne Sundfør 

Never Wanted You Anyway –  Tim Chadwick 

Make Me Wonder –  Kllo

The Best You Had – Nina Nesbitt

Depth Over Distance – Ben Howard

The House Is Dust – Everything Everything

Back to Black – Amy Winehouse

Damn You – Lana del Rey

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“All you gotta say is it’s over any way we go...”

Make Me Wonder by Kllo

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New Currencies

Anonymity

Rarity

Craftsmanship

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Series

The Night Of

The Handmaid’s Tale

Big Little Lies

Westworld

Alias Grace

Peaky Blinders

The Fall 

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The Forest, a film by Morten Rustad

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“The burdens of selfhood are stronger than they have ever been. All of these things — limits, temptation, work — were either governed by work or governed by religion. And today it’s all governed by us.” 

Esther Perel

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Marc Scibilia 

What If I Can

Better Man (2:36 to 2:50 contains delight)

Something Good In This World

How Bad We Need Each Other

New Years, Old Years 

Ain’t My Home 

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"But the record’s unstated objective, which I see as the far more important one, was to mirror what is best of humanity back to itself in the middle of the Cold War, at a time when we seemed to have forgotten who we are to each other and what it means to share this fragile, symphonic planet."

Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment on Brainpickings 

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“New years and old years, new dreams and old fears

Try to make it better, try to make it pass 

Hope that the new years don't look like last”

New Years, Old Years Marc Scibilia 

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Lana del Rey 

Bel Air

Art Deco

Salvatore

Black Beauty

Chelsea Hotel No 2

Gods & Monsters

Off to the Races

Goodbye Kiss 

Blue Jeans

Body Electric

Young and Beautiful 

Once Upon a Dream

Honeymoon (Orchestral)

High By The Beach (Orchestral)

This Is What Makes Us Girls

Video Games

Florida Kilos

I Can Fly

Big Eyes

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“I mean when you think about language and you think about consciousness, it’s just incredible to think that we can make any sounds that can reach over across to each other at all. Because I mean I think we’re — I think the beauty of being human is that we are incredibly, intimately near each other, we know about each other, but yet we do not know or never can know what it’s like inside another person.“

Krista Tippet in conversation with John O’Donohue