la belle indifférence. @wornout-astronaut - Tumblr Blog

What a relief to love something for a bad reason, to love something that does not improve me, that impacts my life not at all. Nobody deserves snow and nobody deserves love either. It offers nothing but itself, and inconvenience, going grey and disgusting and difficult as I clutch a private, stupid, untranslatable joy to my heart, useless, and unsharable, and precious because of it.

- helena ftzgerlad, love and slush puddles

#helena fitzgerald #griefbacon

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The Mirror - Walter Richard Sickert

British, 1860-1942

Oil on canvas, 27.1 x 21.7 cm

#walter richard sickert #the mirror

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Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940), Nude on a Chair, 1904. Oil on cardboard, 57.5 x 32.5 cm

#edouard vuillard

Valeri Masyukov, Waiting for his return, 1989.

#valeri masyukov #waiting #return

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and like so many things plath wrote i recited the poem while i was drowning sorry plath sorry campilho but the world is a horror

— Adelaide Ivánov, from “The Elephant,” The Hammer

#Adelaide Ivánov

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Ellen Auerbach, Sulfur Bath, Big Sur, California, 1949

#ellen auerbach

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Larry Towell - Woman with Flowers

#larry towell

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Michele Wallace

#michele wallace

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Ruth Asawa.

#ruth asawa

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“Georgia O’Keeffe with Cheese”, New Mexico, 1960

Photo by Tony Vaccaro

#Georgia O’Keeffe

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“You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.

Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. (via ligeia-of-the-rhine)

#ocean vuong