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Seeds by Gilbert Williams

#yellow

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i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

#about me

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Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818-1899)

La fanciulla sulla roccia di Sorrento

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The Incoming Mist, Deer in the Highlands by Charles Stuart

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The little girl’s sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy’s Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference between this heroine and the objective face that her parents and friends recognize in her. She is also convinced that she is misunderstood: her relationship with herself becomes even more passionate: she becomes intoxicated with her isolation, feels different, superior, exceptional: she promises that the future will take revenge on the mediocrity of her present life. From this narrow and petty existence she escapes by dreams.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

#death

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Anton von Werner (German, 1843–1915) - Gnarled oak near Namur

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good things – big old trees, fresh flowers, art galleries, handwritten letters, funny jokes, swings, long showers, smiles from strangers, neck kisses, pasta + wine, dark chocolate, pillows! lots of pillows, big wide windows, learning new things, making lists, the feeling of being whole & loved :)

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Detail of Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by the Kiss of Love (1789).

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

#fuck man #personal

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Dominic Leonard, from "No Dark Pastoral", pub. amberflora [ID'd]

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Emily Dickinson, “Death Is A Dialogue Between”

#death

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“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”  ~ Claude Monet

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#devotion

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Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana.

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Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA by Betty Wiley