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"fuck you my child is completely fine"

your child reads classic literature for fun

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casual wear (splattered with blood) vs. evening wear (drenched in blood)

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Chapel of the Immaculate Conception - Reims Cathedral

Photo by Charles Reeza

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‪kafka was like no one understands me and today we’re like kafka is the only one that understands me‬

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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”

- From “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

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Brotherly Charity. 1865. Edouard de Conny French 1818-1900. marble.               http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Manuscript of Bram Stoker’s Dracula playscript, from 1897.

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this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.

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Primavera (detail), Sandro Botticelli, tempera on panel, late 1470s or early 1480s.

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—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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Adam Vinson (American, b. 1978, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA - Unknown Couple, Paintings: Oil on Panel

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“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. March 1940 featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 5 1936-1941 

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Cimetière de Montmartre. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

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“Aristotle asked about aretē (excellence/virtue) and telos (purpose/goal), and he used the metaphor that people are like archers, who need a clear target at which to aim. Without a target or goal, one is left with the animal default: Just let the elephant graze or roam where he pleases. And because elephants live in herds, one ends up doing what everyone else is doing. Yet the human mind has a rider, and as the rider begins to think more abstractly in adolescence, there may come a time when he looks around, past the edges of the herd, and asks: Where are we all going? And why?”

— Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (via mr-entj)

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Aeschylus (trans. Anne Carson), from An Oresteia; “Agamemnon”

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Compromising Enlightenment (detail)

Kris Kuksi

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Grégory Chiha - Hot head