“Even in a place you know intimately, each night’s darkness is different.”
— Anne Michaels, from “Miner’s Pond,” The Weight of Oranges / Miner’s Pond (McClelland & Stewart, 1997)
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“For I do not exist:
there exist but the thousands of mirrors
that reflect me.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, 1899-1977)
art by xiaohongshu.com
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…and yet, you see him at your feet.
— Mikhail Lermontov, The Demon (tr. by charles johnston)
Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless.
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Emilie Ristevski
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“That love of maidens for monsters, that does not fade with time.”
— Katherine Arden (via mashamorevna)
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788, British) ~ The Mall in St. James’s Park, 1783
[Source: Google Art Project]
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Four Muses and Pegasus by Caesar van Everdingen
btw 1648. and 1650.
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Radije verujemo u ono što osećamo, nego u ono što zaista jeste.
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by Frédéric Dufaux
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The Sea Nymph by Pierre Dupuis (1892)
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“Pure truth could burst the world apart.”
— Nikolai Berdyaev, The Spirit and Reality
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Beauty’s fortune,1920 by Norman Lindsay
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"To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life." — Pablo Neruda
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Beautiful icon vandalized with knife
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