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"I don't believe that we shall have great religious fiction until we have again that happy combination of believing artist and believing society." — Flannery O'Connor (Novelist & Believer)

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"Age appears to be best in four things — old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." — Alfonso of Aragon (Attributed by Sir Francis Bacon)

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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.”

— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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To be alive at all is to have scars.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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Welcome to Black Tea Tumblr

Welcome to Black Tea Tumblr.

This network of blogs aims to appreciate the Good, the Truth, and the Beautiful through the literary and the aesthetic. Each of the following blogs have their own area of interest, but each of them will gather all that is best in classicism, traditionalism, and Catholicism. In short, academia - light and dark. @blackteaoldbooks - A blog for original content, particularly photoshop remixes and original photographs. @blackteacommonplace - A blog for gathered quotations not usually found online. @blackteafineart - A (re)blog for fine art: painting, statues, and artifacts. @blackteafinefashion - A (re)blog for fashion, particularly those of an 19th to early 20th century aesthetic. @blackteaoldbuildings - A (re)blog for all things architecture and city planning, particularly classical, medieval, gothic, renaissance, neoclassical, and romantic. @blackteaoldwords - A (re)blog for quotations that I find interesting. So, welcome. - Black Tea, Old Books === “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - C.S. Lewis.