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Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre by Hubert Robert.

“There was a grand piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. He was a little drunk; the Chopin was slurred and fluid, the notes melting sleepily into one another. A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair.”

Credit: autumnslittlesister

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

-René Descartes

When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Who else just fucking loves the color green

Black Swan | Vogue Korea 2016.09.06

Photographer YOO YOUNG KYU

Model Kim Seong-hee

chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married

Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

“A golden cage is still just a cage.”

-Anita Krizzan

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perspectives.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

-Heraclitus

“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.”

-Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs”

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done” ―Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

When Oscar Wilde said, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars," and, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all," and, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

you, who opened suns in my heart,

by Rikki Austin

Hallwylska Museet. x

Granada Cathedral.

Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.

La Seu Vella, Lleida, Catalonia. Photos by Adeline Gressin

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.”   ―  Oscar Wilde

Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don’t belong, and, my beloved, neither do you.

Dostoevsky’s drawings and calligraphy on his manuscripts.