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Russian School, 19th Century

A Greecean temple [Venus], n/d, oil on canvas, 56x99 cm

Private Collection

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Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

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— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks

[text ID: My library is an archive of longings.]

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i am a simple person.

if someone tells me that they were thinking of me, i would bask in that softness and confirmation for months.

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She needs academic validation but she's not working for it. She's me.

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Judith (Details), 1892. By Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1834 - 1912)

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yeah, i love!

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Happy first day of spring!

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Boy who falls in love with girl after she beats the shit out of him gotta be one of my favorite dynamics fr

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Sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, 1909

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The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London, 2017.  © Moon and Serpent

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Eve (detail, 1885) Anna Lea Merritt

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“I think its very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

— Oscar Wilde

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980