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“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
- Sylvia Plath
John Keats, On death, Composed 1814.
Charles Bukowski//Ernest Hemingway
Paintings by Michael Bao
Carolyn Forché//Mary Oliver//H.D//Frank Bidart
~.~.~.~.~
sometimes the moon is all i have.
Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.
Mary Ruefle, from 'The Cart'.
Tony Belobrajdic//Kamille Corry//Kamille Corry//Kamille Corry//Ivana Lena Besevic//Marittie De Villiers//Kamille Corry//Tony Belobrajdic//Emma Neill
eyes have a language of their own
x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x
Art is the highest form of hope.
𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚏 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚏 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘.
- 𝚁𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝙻𝚘𝚞𝚒𝚜 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗, 𝙳𝚛. 𝙹𝚎𝚔𝚢𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚛. 𝙷𝚢𝚍𝚎.
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain.
Ariana Reines//Alexandra Vasiliu//Atticus//Unknown
Poul Friis Nybo//Carl Holsoe//George Elgar Hicks//Anne Magill//Augustus Egg//Jozef Israëls
Lets get lost in a world made of books, coffee and rainy days..
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
- George Orwell, 1984
𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺
“𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘺.”
-𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘍𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘥
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
-Albert Camus ☕️🌙
(Art: Greg Mort, “Sun, Moon and Stars,” 1999)
Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
-William Napier
launch out on his story, muse, daughter of zeus,
start from where you will - sing for our time too.
forever in love
with your dark night
just another thursday: studies, readings & coffee
days filled with reading 💭
happy september to everyone! 🍂☕️
sneak peek of my bookshelf
the one with the brains
[top right picture belongs to @sadcypher]
my room perpetually smells like coffee now
There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.
Lisa Schroeder, My Secret Guide to Paris