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[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[random-brushstrokes]

Betye Saar - Mystic Window for Leo (1969)

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dragon blood tree - yemen

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Najran: Desert Garden of Arabia. The photo was taken by René Tchékof Minosa

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter"

[clearpills]

There is a light that never goes out

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the mortifying ordeal of being earnest

[kosmogrl]

[vampurrring]

maybe growing up is just becoming who you were at 14 again but learning how to love her this time

[jssl]

Trafalgar Square Pigeons

London, 1949

Ernst Haas

[04k96]

[fieldsarebreathing]

[jwleet]

[metamorphesque]

embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

[petaltexturedskies]

You see, dearest creature, I could sit up all night: we might go to moonlight ruins, cafés, dances, plays, junketings: converse forever; sleep only while the moon covers herself for an instant with a thin veil;

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West wr. c. September 1928

[distrovert]

Fairuz in the 1970s.

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