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The Secret Garden (1993)

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Venus, Juno and Minerva Awaiting the Judgement of Paris by Adriaen Collaert (1587)

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<i>the ruins at Ba`albek // Lebanon

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“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

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“He is ugly and sad… but he is all love.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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Death and the Miser + Details by Hieronymus Bosch, 1494 or later

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Planet Earth (2006) Season 01 Episode 11 “Ocean Deep” Directed by Alastair Fothergill

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I know this transformation is painful, but you're not falling apart; you're just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.

— William C. Hannan

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The Ring, from Among Gnomes and Trolls 8 by John Bauer (1914)

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“I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.”

— J.D. Salinger

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The Magic Carpet by Ivan Bilibin, 1935.

#fairy tale #fairy tales #literature #child literature #childrens ilustrations #oriental tales #magic #Magic carpet #ivan bilibin #bilibin #tale #fairy tale aesthetic #illustration #colorful #color #bright colors #India #men #man

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Zodiac, by Alfons Maria Mucha, 1896.

#art #art nouveau #alfons mucha #alfons maria mucha #woman #zodiac #color #leaf #astrology #blonde #illustration

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Bird of Paradise Sirin by Ivan Bilibin, 1905

#literature #child literature #art #fairy tales #tale #fantasy #ivan bilibin #bilibin #bird #metamorphosis #metamorphic #watercolour illustration #watercolor #woman #nanquin #nanquim #ink #cardboard #russian folklore #russian fairy tales #russian literature #russia #art nouveau #illustration #childrens illustration

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Vasilissa, the Beautiful at the hut of Baba Yaga by Ivan Bilibin, 1902.

#literature #book #child literature #art #fairy tales #tale #fantasy #draw #ivan bilibin #bilibin #baba yaga #russian fairy tales #russian literature #vasilisa #hut #russian folklore #skazka #story #color #girl #skull #florest #wood #Beautiful #witch #dress #kid literature #illustration #children illustration

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Illustration by Ivan Bilibin for Alexander Pushkin's "Fairytale of the Tsar Saltan", 1905.

#Russia #russian literature #russian fairy tales #fairy tale #tsar #book #child literature #kid literature #literature #ilustration #magic #tale #ivan bilibin #bilibin #art nouveau #couple #garden #flowers #castle #city #pushkin #art #illustration #children illustration

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Stories from Hans Andersen, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, 1911.

#literature #book #art #fairy #fairy tales #tale #childrens ilustrations #child literature #old woman #garden #magic #edmund dulac #Dulac #Andersen #hans christian andersen #Hans andersen #river #girl #house #beauty #flowers #flower #art nouveau

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Alice grows too tall for the room, from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. Art by John Tenniel, 1891

#childrens ilustrations #girl #female #kid #Child #child literature #literature #uncomfortable #story #tale #fantasy #alice in wonderland #Alice #wonderland #draw #ilustration #john tenniel #tenniel #book #lewis carroll #art