Valentino Fall 2016
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āThe Queen of Swordsā by Judy GrahnĀ
[ID: She is veiled. / You can only see part of her at a time - / a crescent, like the moon. Even so, / she is so luminous / she hurts the eyes.]
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The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. Itās always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.
ā Tahereh Mafi
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āPicking Wild Flowersā (also known as āPicking Daisiesā) (1905) (detail) by Hermann Seeger (1857-1945).
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The Progress of Love: Hollyhocks (detail), ca. 1790ā91.
Jean-HonoreĢ Fragonard (French, 1732ā1806),
Oil on canvas
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Keira Knightley in 'Colette'
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Definatley my #coffee cups!
These metal cups from the late 19th century are decorated with #skeletons, both adult and infant, representing the Danse Macabre, or the āDance of Death.ā As a memento mori, they remind drinkers of the shortness of life and the inevitability of death.
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āI am sick of myself trying to give shape to all this sorrow, all this rage, all this lossāand failing.ā
ā Carole Maso, The Art Lover
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Vicente Lopez y PortaƱa (1722 -1850)
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ok so I did decide to make a main. lmk if you want the url!
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can't get over the oldest living olive tree being over 4000 years old. imagine someone in 200 bc being like look at this old tree. so many living breathing people existed before us and they had lives just like ours and they lived in the same world we live in, only younger. if you stop for a second and close your eyes and listen you can hear what they heard. someone looked at this tree when it was just a sprout. someone ate the first olive from it. and then 2000 years later someone else thinks the very same thing
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āāI observe myself, am my own audience. My sentiments pass - I donāt know which of my perceptions - like exterior things. I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.āā
ā Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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SARAH BOLGER as LADY MARY TUDOR
THE TUDORS (2007-2010)
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Detail
Anton Giulio Brignole-Sale on Horseback, 1627
Anthony van Dyck
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